Marino Busdachin
Marino Busdachin was an Italian politician and human rights activist.
Early life and education
Busdachin was born in Umag in 1956, and moved to Italy with his family in 1961. He studied law at the University of Trieste.Political involvement
During the 1970s Busdachin campaigned for civil rights in Italy. He was elected at an early age to the Federal Council of the Transnational Radical Party and the City Council of Trieste.During the 1980s he campaigned with the Transnational Radical Party to promote human, civil and political rights in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He was arrested and jailed for his activities in Bulgaria and in the Soviet Union.
Between 1993 and 1998, he worked in the United States on international campaigns for the establishment of ad hoc international tribunals to prosecute war crimes in the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He also lobbied for a moratorium on the death penalty at the United Nations where he represented the Transnational Radical Party.
Busdachin was one of the leading figures of the Nonviolent Radical Party and a member of its general council.