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Trial of Marco Cappato, MEP, and Chris Davies, MEP
Marco Cappato Press Release
Thursday 24 Oct 2002 DRUGS/EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: TRIAL OF MARCO CAPPATO AND CHRIS DAVIES IN MANCHESTER ON MONDAY 28 OCTOBER MEETING WITH THE PRESS AFTER THE TRIAL AT AROUND 12 O'CLOCK Marco Cappato (MEP, Radical Party) and Chris Davies (MEP, Liberal Democrats) will be on trial on Monday the 28th of October in Manchester Crown Court in Minshull Street for the civil disobedience actions enacted in Stockport last December. After the trial Marco Cappato and Chris Davies will meet the press in front of the Manchester Crown Court at around 12 o'clock. Background information: Chris Davies (UK Liberal Democrat MEP) was arrested on the 15th of December of last year for a civil disobedience protest aimed at furthering the campaign against cannabis prohibition, and protesting against the arrest of Colin Davies (no relation). Colin Davies has been in Strangeways prison, Manchester, since the 20th of November, awaiting trial on charges based on his running of a Dutch-style coffee-shop in Stockport, and then condemned to a prison sentence. On the 20th of December Marco Cappato went to lend the support of the Transnational Radical Party to Chris Davies, member of the Liberal Democrat group in the European Parliament. During a press conference that followed the hearing to Chris Davies, Cappato announced his imminent action similar to the one carried out by Mr. Davies and went to the Stockport Police Office with a small quantity of cannabis derivatives, a move that triggered his immediate arrest and custody. During the night, the police searched the rooms of Maurizio Turco MEP and of Ottavio Marzocchi of the Radical Party, that had joined Davies and Cappato in support of their civil disobedience action. On the January 28 Marco Pannella (MEP, Radical leader) enacted the same civil disobedience action but the police refused to arrest him. Mr Pannella has been condemned last week for another civil disobedience action committed in Italy, and has declared to prefer to go to prison for 4 months, refusing the alternative sentence of 8 months release on bail. On the 15/16 October Davies, Cappato and Pannella organised a conference in the European Parliament that launch the International Antiprohibitionist League, an association composed of legislators, organisations and citizens aimed at reforming the UN Drugs Conventions and current laws and policies on drugs. For more informations: Marco Cappato's office in the EP: 0032 2 2847496, mcappato@europarl.eu.int For interviews: Marco Cappato, MEP: 0039 335 7110337 www.radicalparty.org
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