TORTURE IN ITALY
OPPONENTS OF FASCISM IN PRISON
COUNTRY GETTING WORSE Lnitcd l‘.A.—By Tclcyrayh—Copyright Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The general situation in Italy is going from bad to worse, declares Signor Roselli, one of the escapees from an Italian island prison, who is at present visiting London. The best proof that the Fascist regime has not got the country’s support is that Mussolini cannot govern without the terrible exceptional laws passed in 1926.” Signor Rosselli asserts that the prisons throughout Italy, especially in the south, are full of people, their only crime being that they are not in sympathy with the regime. They are subjected to most shocking tortures, the latest being to tie the prisoner to a chair and strike hint heavily and repeatedly over the heart with a rubber-covered hammer. Reprisals against the families of anti-Fascists have now become part of Italy’s legal system. Thousands of Italian homes have been ransacked and the furniture destroyed in front helpless women.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 9
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