Sergio D'Elia
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- DECEMBER 17, 2024United NationsDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. HANDS OFF CAIN, ANOTHER STEP TOWARD WORLDWIDE ABOLITION
The United Nations General Assembly has just passed its 10th Resolution for a universal moratorium on executions.
- DECEMBER 14, 2021DEATH PENALTY
CONTINUE TO BE HOPE AGAINST ALL HOPE
The IX Congress of Hands Off Cain is convened in the Opera prison in Milan, on 17 and 18 December 2021.
- DECEMBER 16, 2020ItalyDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. HANDS OFF CAIN WELCOMES THE APPROVAL BY THE UNGA OF A RESOLUTION FOR A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM
Hands Off Cain, the association which has promoted since 1993 and brought to success in 2007 the campaign for the approval by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution for a universal moratorium on capital punishment, welcomes the approval of ei
- MAY 13, 2020DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
HANDS OFF CAIN: WITH THE STORY OF CUTOLO, ITALY DEGRADES FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE OF LAW
Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands off Cain-Spes contra Spem, has reassessed the following statement on the story of Raffaele Cutolo, who has been denied Medical furlough because of coronavirus.
- APRIL 22, 2020DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
JUSTICE: HANDS OFF CAIN, RIGHT TO HEALTH IS VALID FOR ALL EVEN 41 BIS
The association Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem defends the decisions of the Surveillance Court of Milan on the granting of the postponement of the sentence for very serious health reasons in cases of prisoners under the 41 bis regime.
- APRIL 20, 2020DEATH PENALTY
PRISON. APPEAL OF 54 PERSONALITIES FROM 14 COUNTRIES TO THE EU FOR AN AMNESTY FACING COVID-19
54 personalities from 14 countries are asking the European institutions to promote the amnesty to face the Covid 19 pandemic in prisons.
- APRIL 17, 2020DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
PRISON: CONVOCATION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HANDS OFF CAIN-SPES CONTRA SPEM
The Hand off Cain-Spes contra spem association convened its Board of Directors on Saturday, April 18 from 2.30 pm to 8.00 pm.
- APRIL 4, 2020DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
PRISONER DEAD FROM CORONAVIRUS, HANDS OFF CAIN ASKS THAT HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND HEAD OF STATE INTERVENE
The association "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem", faced with the news of the first death of a prisoner linked to the coronavirus, which follows the equally tragic news of two prison officers who died in recent days, "asks the Prime Minister and the Presi
- MARCH 10, 2020DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
CORONAVIRUS. PRISON, APPEAL OF HANDS OFF CAIN FOR NONVIOLENCE
Faced with the news of riots underway in prisons, the association Hands Off Cain - Spes contra Spem appeals to the entire prison community, made up of prisoners, managers and prison operators, so that the behaviors are in the name of nonviolence and dialo
- JANUARY 1, 2020ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
- DECEMBER 24, 2019DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
ENDED IN OPERA PRISON IN MILAN THE VIII CONGRESS OF ‘HANDS OFF CAIN-SPES CONTRA SPEM’
As you know, the VIII Congress of "Hands off Cain-Spes contra spem" (in its new name) ended in the Opera prison in Milan on 21 December 2019 with the election of a new Council Board
- DECEMBER 18, 2019DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
PRISON. HANDS OFF CAIN IN CONGRESS IN OPERA IN MILAN
The VIII Congress of Hands Off Cain will be held in the Opera prison in Milan on 20 and 21 December.
DECEMBER 18, 2019DEATH BY PUNISHMENTVIII HANDS OFF CAIN CONGRESS - PROGRAM PROPOSAL AND ORDER OF WORKS
Prison of Opera (MI), 20-21 December 2019
DECEMBER 4, 2019ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - HoC and Italian Lawmakers Urge Support for Iran Protests.
IRAN - HoC and Italian Lawmakers Urge Support for Iran Protests.
- OCTOBER 9, 2019DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
LIFE IN PRISON: HANDS OFF CAIN, DECISION CEDU MILESTONE ON THE WAY TO ABOLISH THE LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE
For the association Hands Off Cain, after years of working with the Radical Party for the abolition of “ergastolo ostativo” (life imprisonment without parole), the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which finalized the ruling in the case of M
- JUNE 13, 2019DEATH BY PUNISHMENT
COURT OF STRASBOURG. HANDS OFF CAIN, HISTORICAL JUDGMENT OF THE ECHR ON THE VIOLA CASE vs ITALY
For the "Hands off Cain" association, which for years has been involved, with the Radical Party, in the abolition of the life sentence, the judgment of the European Court for Human Rights in the case of Marcello Viola vs Italy is a historical pronouncemen
- FEBRUARY 11, 2019DEATH PENALTY
HUMAN RIGHTS: DEMONSTRATION OF THE RADICAL PARTY BEFORE IRANIAN EMBASSY 14 FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 14th at 3:00 pm, the Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty will hold a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy (in Rome, Via Nomentana, 361) to denounce the "Iranian danger" in the days when two world conferences a
- JANUARY 1, 2019ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
- AUGUST 2, 2018DEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY: HANDS OFF CAIN, ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY STEP OF POPE FRANCIS
On the reform of the New Catechism on the death penalty, the leaders of Hands Off Cain as well as members of the Radical Party Presidency, Sergio D'Elia, Elisabetta Zamparutti and Rita Bernardini, said:
- JANUARY 1, 2018ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
- OCTOBER 10, 2017DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN DEDICATES THE WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY TO IRAN
October 10 is the World Day Against the Death Penalty and Hands Off Cain dedicates it to Iran, the country that continues to record the largest number of per capita executions in the world.
AUGUST 27, 2017DEATH PENALTYIRAN: HANDS OFF CAIN ASKS THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO LISTEN TO THE REASONS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS ON A HUNGER STRIKE FOR THE INHUMANE CONDITIONS OF DETENTION IN KARAJ PRISON
Hands off Cain joins international mobilization in support of the reasons of the political prisoners of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, a hunger strike of 27 days, and asks the Italian Government to act to ensure that their human rights are respected.
- MAY 26, 2017ItalyDEATH PENALTY
PROTOCOL TO CONTAIN THE DEATH PENALTY SIGNED BY HOC AND CNF
"Containing the death penalty in time war on terrorism in Egypt, Somalia and Tunisia."
- FEBRUARY 6, 2017DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN URGES THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION ON THE DJALALI CASE
In an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni and to the Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, the Hands Off Cain association calls upon the Italian government to take action on the case of the Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalai.
- JANUARY 1, 2017ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
Italy became totally abolitionist in 1994, when the death penalty was abolished from the Military Codes.
- DECEMBER 19, 2016United NationsDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY: UNITED NATIONS CONFIRM THE REQUEST OF A UNIVERSAL MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
The General Assembly of the United Nations confirmed the demand for an end to the death penalty by the vote of a new resolution calling on states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the practice. This is the sixth pro-morator
- NOVEMBER 18, 2016DEATH PENALTY
SERGIO D'ELIA ON RADIO RADICALE: THE THIRD COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAS APPROVED THE RESOLUTION FOR MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
“We can say that there are lights and shadows in this first pass in the Third Committee on Human Rights. Let’s start from the not exactly positive aspects: it is reflected in this vote the tendency, almost worldwide, of a return to national sovereignty.
- OCTOBER 10, 2016DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN: PRIORITY IS TO CONTAIN THE DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISM
On World Day against the death penalty, Hands Off Cain sounded the alarm on the rise in the number of executions and death sentences in the name of the war on terrorism.
- AUGUST 10, 2016DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: HANDS OFF CAIN, ITALY MUST NOT EXTRADITE THE BLOGGER KHOSRAVI
Hands Off Cain asks the Italian authorities not to grant extradition in the Islamic Republic of the blogger Mehdi Khosravi, also known as Yashar Parsa, born in Iran, but resident in the United Kingdom as a political refugee, arrested August 7 in Dorio, pr
- MAY 31, 2016DEATH PENALTY
IRAN: HANDS OFF CAIN ASKS THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE ON AN ANTI-SEMITIC CARTOON CONTEST
Hands Off Cain asks the Italian Government to take a stand on yet another anti-Semitic event staged by the