Rubrica semi-seria di mediazione culturale

I grew up in Rome and with 28 I moved to Bern     Basically, I jumped from a 5 million to a 125’000 … European capital     What could possibly go wrong when you do such a thing?     My columns for tvsvizzera.it – in Italian    

Small Country, Big Brother

I published on the magazine Area, in Italian, a few articles on surveillance and digital security, self-defense. The rather depressing occasion for some of these publications were two major changes in the Swiss legislation that effectively make of such a tiny country a comfortable home for Big Brother.

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Cannabis goes legal in Switzerland for a scientific project

I published an article on the Swiss-Italian magazine Area on the amazing story of an experiment that might soon make Cannabis legal in Switzerland. The project was first born in Geneva, issued of a group putting around the table most of the political parties to exchange views about the bigger picture of security issues. The Read more about Cannabis goes legal in Switzerland for a scientific project[…]

Human Rights Defender Trapped in Baku

An Azerbaijani dissident has spent ten months living in the Swiss embassy in Baku. The human rights defender Emin Huseynov has long been persecuted by the authoritarian government of president Ilham Aliyev and since August 2014 has been hosted by the Swiss embassy for humanitarian reasons after he went into hiding, fearing his arrest was imminent. Read more about Human Rights Defender Trapped in Baku[…]