Cospito, the UN has asked Italy for “respect for dignity and humanity” – Corriere.it

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has asked Italy to enforce the law dignity of Alfredo Cospito
, detained under the 41 bis and on hunger strike for months. The request arrived on March 1, as announced by a press release from Cospito’s lawyer.

«On 1 March 2023, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights sent the Italian state a request for the application of temporary precautionary measures relating to the 41bis detention of Alfredo Cospito. The document was notified to the representation of the Italian government in Geneva and to the lawyer Flavio Rossi Albertini, who immediately after the rejection of the appeal for Cospito in Cassation had forwarded an individual communication to the Human Rights Commission denouncing the conditions of detention of his client “. reads the note released by the defender of the anarchist who has been on hunger strike for over four months and by Luigi Manconi, president of the association «A good right».

The document also states that «pending the decision on the merits of the individual petition presented for Alfredo Cospito, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has decided to apply a provisional measure which consists in requesting Italy to ensure compliance with the standards international and articles 7

(prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and prohibition of submitting, without free consent, to medical or scientific experiments) and – the note continues – 10 (humanity of treatment and respect for the human dignity of every person deprived of personal liberty) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in relation to the prison conditions of Alfredo Cospito”.

But, writes the lawyer, despite the UN request to adopt “urgent measures to protect the detainee”, almost two days after the notification of the measure, “no initiative has been taken by the Minister of Justice to revoke or at least improve the prison condition by Alfredo Cospito». «The Italian State must, in compliance with its international obligations, implement this provisional measure. It would represent a serious precedent if the decision adopted by the Committee remained a dead letter, if Italy emulated the indifference shown to Oni by autocratic regimes.