VIII HANDS OFF CAIN CONGRESS - PROGRAM PROPOSAL AND ORDER OF WORKS

December 18, 2019:

Prison of Opera (MI), 20-21 December 2019

Friday, December 20th

9:30 am Entrance to the prison

10:00 am Opening of the registrations at the Assembly

10:15 am Opening of the works, approval and establishment of the Presidency, approval of the Order of Works and the Regulations

10:30 am Institutional greetings:

- Silvio Di Gregorio, Director of the Opera House of Detention

- Pietro Buffa, Director of the Prison Administration of Lombardy

- Giovanna Di Rosa, President of the Milan Surveillance Court

- Mauro Palma, National Guarantor for the rights of persons detained or deprived of liberty

- Vinicio Nardo, President of the Milan Bar Association

11:00 am Reports:

- Sergio D’Elia, Secretary

- Elisabetta Zamparutti, Treasurer

- Rita Bernardini, President

Scheduled interventions

- Maurizio Turco, Secretary of the Radical Party

- Stefano Castellino, Mayor of Palma di Montechiaro

- Testimony of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment

1.30pm - 2.00 pm Buffet break

2.00 pm Opening of the general debate

"The Right to Hope: the life sentence in the light of the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court"

Planned interventions of:

- Prof. Pasquale Bronzo, Associate of Criminal Procedure, La Sapienza University

- Avv. Maria Brucale, Managing Director of Hands Off Cain

- Dott. Riccardo De Vito, Sassari Magistrate, President of Magistratura Democratica

- Prof. Andreana Esposito, Associate of Criminal Law, University of Campania

- Prof. Davide Galliani, Associate of Institutions of public law at the University of Milan

- Avv. Andrea Mascherin, President of the National Bar Council

- Avv. Antonella Mascia, defender of Marcello Viola in the appeal to the EDU Court

- Prof. Valerio Onida, President Emeritus of the Constitutional Court

- Prof. Andrea Pugiotto, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Ferrara

- Sen. Roberto Rampi

- Avv. Matteo Zamboni, co-author of the collective appeal to the Human Rights Committee of the UN on life sentence

Saturday 21 December

9:30 am Resumption of the works and of the general debate

"Not so much a better criminal law, but something better than criminal law"

Planned interventions of:

- Father Guido Bertagna

- Dr. Gherardo Colombo

- Luigi Crespi

- Gioacchino Criaco, writer

- Prof. Luciano Eusebi, Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic University “Sacro Cuore” in Milan

- Livio Ferrari, President of No Prison

- Fabio Pizzul, Councilor for the Lombardy Region, of the Prison Commission

- Carlo Lio, Regional Civic Defender and Guarantor of prisoners

- Tiziana Maiolo

- Diego Mazzola

- Avv. Beniamino Migliucci, former President of the Union of Criminal Chambers

- Mr. Giuseppe Morganti

- Dr. Luigi Pagano, former Head of the DAP

10.00 am Deadline for the presentation of general and particular motions

10:30 am Deadline for tabling amendments to motions and the list for the election of the Board of Directors

15:00 - Closing of the general debate

Voting: general motion; balance sheet and budget

Election of the Bodies: Presidency of Honor and Board of Directors which in turn elects the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association.