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.

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[…]

Deportation class / Le regole per un elettrochoc

Deportation class, a serie of articles in Italian. I rimpatri forzati sono una triste specialità elvetica, anche nota come “deportation class”. La Confederazione è all’avanguardia nel settore: li esegue da anni con risultati considerati soddisfacenti dall’Ufficio federale dei rifugiati. Continua a leggere sul sito di Area Rimpallo di immigrati. Tredici congolesi che chiedevano asilo politico rimandati a casa, Read more about Deportation class / Le regole per un elettrochoc[…]