Ilaria Salis, and Italian antifascist
on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking neoNazis last year,
was freed from preventive detention Friday following her
election, and consequent parliamentary immunity, in the European
poll for the Green-Left Alliance (AVS) last weekend.
Police removed the electronic ankle bracelet the 39-year-old
Monza elementary teacher had been required to wear after her
recent release from controversial prison detention to house
arrest in Budapest.
Salis' lawyer immediately applied for her release after her
election at the top of the AVS slate on Sunday.
Salis is now expected to return to Italy.
During her trial she was led into court on a chain with her
ankles and wrists cuffed, a procedure Hungary says is standard
but which caused indignation and protests in Italy.
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