Respect Salis's rights Tajani tells Hungary

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 29 - Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Antonio Tajani on Monday told Hungary to respect Ilaria Salis's rights after the 39-year-old Milan elementary school teacher and antifascist militant was dragged in chains into a court in Budapest where she is on trial for attacking two Hungarian neo-Nazis last February.
    "We ask the Hungarian government (led by rightwing Viktor Orban) to be vigilant and to intervene so that the rights, provided for by EU law, of the Italian citizen Ilaria Salis detained awaiting trial are respected", he said on X.
    Monza-born Salis, who has pleaded innocent to the charges, faces up to 11 years in jail in the trial, which has been adjourned to May 24.
    A German co-defendant, who plead guilty, got three years in jail Monday. (ANSA).