ITALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FIGHTERS: MARCO CAPPATO

 

ITALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FIGHTERS: MARCO CAPPATO

Marco Cappato, 49, member of the "Luca Coscioni" association.

 Its commitment to human rights focuses in particular on the rights of the untreated or terminally ill. Over the last few years he has been the protagonist of numerous battles in favor of the freedom of choice of assisted suicide by sick people, without the possibility of healing and in the throes of intolerable suffering. This battle also included civil disobedience consisting in accompanying several people who had applied for assisted suicide to Switzerland. Marco Cappato practices non-violent struggle.