Sergio D'Elia

Sergio D'Elia (born 5 May 1952 in Pontecorvo, Italy) is an Italian politician, activist and former left-wing terrorist, now a human rights' supporter and advocate of non-violence.[1]

Sergio D'Elia
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
In office
2006–2008
Personal details
Born5 May 1952 (1952-05-05) (age 68)
Pontecorvo, Italy
NationalityItalian
Political partyRadical Party
(1986-1989)
Pannella List
(1989-1996)
Bonino List
(1996-2001)
Italian Radicals
(2001-present)
Other political
affiliations
Transnational Radical Party
(1989-present)
Spouse(s)Mariateresa Di Lascia (deceased in 1994)
Elisabetta Zamparutti
Professionpolitician

D'Elia spent 12 years in prison for his affiliation to the terrorist organization Prima Linea; in 1986 he abandoned the armed struggle and Marxist ideology by adopting a left libertarian position, and soon joined the Radical Party (a socially liberal and libertarian political organization).[1]

Then, he founded in Rome (1993), with his first wife Mariateresa Di Lascia, Marco Pannella and former EU commissioner Emma Bonino (all politicians of Radical Party), the non-government group Hands Off Cain ("Nessuno tocchi Caino"), which fights against the death penalty and torture in the world.[1]

The great success of D'Elia and HOC was the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty (2007), proposed by Italy's government.[2]

He was an Italian Parliament member from 2006 to 2008.[3]

Notes

gollark: I mean, those apply to some narrowly defined things in physics, for limited definitions of "action" and such, but not in general so far as I can tell.
gollark: I don't think so, unless you really stretch the definition most of the time or claim it's metaphorical or something.
gollark: Like "colourless green ideas sleep furiously" and such.
gollark: It's just that stuff like "thought isnt action. so things that started as thought are just concepts in action, the action is still the same action as all other actions, push and pull." and "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" don't seem like... semantically meaningful sentences. I mean, they're... valid sentences, but don't look like they're actually conveying any true useful information.
gollark: Sure?
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