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EU election candidacy could see Italian antifascist freed from Hungarian jail
Ilaria Salis, who was arrested in February 2023 after counter-demonstration at neo-Nazi rally, could be granted immunity
An Italian antifascist activist held in prison in Hungary has accepted a candidacy in the European elections that could see her granted immunity and released from jail.
Ilaria Salis, 39, a teacher from Monza, near Milan, was arrested in Budapest in February 2023 after a counter-demonstration against a neo-Nazi rally. She was charged with three counts of attempted assault and accused of being part of an extreme leftwing organisation.
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