Wednesday 21 February GCRL President Giulio Terzi took part in the demonstration #SOSVenezuela held in front of the Italian Parliament to show support and friendship to the Venezuelan people and to demand that the deteriorating situation in the South American country be urgently addressed by the Italian authorities. President Terzi was joined by Secretary General Matteo Angioli and by the
Tuesday 20 February 2018 the Iraq War Families Campaign Group (IFCG), campaigning for the families of the 179 servicemen and women killed in the Iraq War, launched another crowdfund “to hold the government to account for not implementing any of the recommendations from the Chilcot Inquiry”. After the publication of the Chilcot Report on 6 July 2016, the IFGC launched a
On Friday 16 February, the maximum penalty requested by the Public Prosecutor of the 26th Istanbul Criminal Court was inflicted on the world-renowned intellectuals Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and four other writers and journalists. It is the aggravated life sentence. They were convicted of “subversion of the constitutional order of the Republic of Turkey, belonging to a terrorist
Saturday 17 February 2018 the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights organized the public encounter “Right to Know and Free Press” in the office of the Institute in the Sicilian city of Siracusa, where the Institute is located. The meeting was moderated by Massimo Leotta, journalist at La Sicilia, to continue the road towards the affirmation of the
Following an 11-month inquiry, European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, issued on 13 February a recommendation relating to the transparency of the Council legislative process. As Mrs O’Reilly puts it: “EU citizens have a treaty-based right to participate in the democratic life of the Union. Citizens cannot properly exercise this right unless the EU legislative process is sufficiently open to allow citizens to
On 8 February Sam Rainsy, exiled Cambodian opposition leader and Honorary member of the Global Committee for the Rule of Law “Marco Pannella”, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court seeking information from Facebook about Cambodia’s misuse of the social media platform. The case is one of the first civil suits to seek inside information from Facebook regarding the
On Friday 9 February the “Ethical Prize” was presented to honor the memory of Marco Pannella. Amb. Giulio Terzi, president of the Global Committee for the Rule of Law and a member of the Radical Party for many years was the recipient of the prize. The ceremony, organized by Plana Cultural Association chaired by Sergio Costa, took place at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
The meeting held in the Vatican on 5 February between Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pope Francis represented a propaganda event useful to improve the heavily deteriorated international image of the Turkish head of state. Erdoğan seized the common view with the Vatican on the very sensitive issue of the status of Jerusalem in order to cast his positive
On Monday 5 February, a meeting was held at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies in the presence of President Fabrizio Cicchitto, with a delegation of Taiwanese parliamentarians. The Asian delegation, headed by Ambassador Ching-shan Hou, awarded Hon. Chicchitto and Senator Giuseppe Marinello, President of the Senate Committee on Territory and Environment, a medal to the Diplomatic Merit as
On Saturday 3 February the constitutive meeting of the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM) took place in Paris. The meeting was attended by Sam Rainsy, Saumura Tioulong, André Gattolin, Laura Harth and many members of the Cambodian community of various European countries. The newborn Movement aims to revive the battle for the rule of law and the democracy of the