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Sergio D'Elia (born May 5, 1952, in Pontecorvo, Italy) is an Italian politician, activist and former left-wing terrorist, now a Nonviolent advocate and human rights' supporter.
D'Elia spent 12 years in prison for his affiliation to terrorist organization Prima Linea; in 1986 he abandoned the armed struggle and communism's ideology for accedes to like-left libertarianism position, entering in Radical Party (a socially liberal and libertarian political organization).
Then, he founded in Rome (1993), with his first wife Mariateresa Di Lascia, Marco Pannella and former EU commissioner Emma Bonino (all politicians of Radical Party) the non-government group Hands Off Cain ("Nessuno tocchi Caino"), that fights against death penalty and torture in the world.
The great success of D'Elia and HOC was the United Nations moratorium on the death penalty (2007), proposed by Italy's government.
He was an Italian Parliament member from 2006 to 2008.