Ilaria Salis

Ilaria Salis (born 17 June 1984) is an Italian politician, activist, writer and teacher. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024 for the Green and Left Alliance, and on 6 June 2026 she joined Italian Left.

Personal life Salis was born on 17 June 1984 in Milan and grew up in Monza, Italy. She received a undergraduate degree in history at the University of Milan, graduating in December 2005. She was charged with three counts of attempted assault and accused of being part of an extreme left-wing organization. She denied the charges and the alleged victims of the attacks did not file reports with police. subjected to more than a month of solitary confinement, and detained in a cell infested with insects. She was also subjected to interrogations without a lawyer or translator Her legal team was repeatedly denied access to the case file, while Hungarian government officials publicly portrayed her as guilty. During the hearings, neo-Nazi activists in paramilitary uniforms intimidated those suspected of supporting her. On 19 December 2023, seven Italian MEPs with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats accused the Hungarian government of holding her "bound by the neck in a cell with mice and cockroaches" and argued that the "injuries of the two assaulted individuals who reported her were only minor". Salis wrote that she spent "23 hours out of 24 in a completely closed cell".

Election to the European Parliament In June 2024, Salis was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Green and Left Alliance, obtaining more than 170,000 votes.

In October 2024, Hungarian prosecutors requested that the European Parliament lift her immunity. The European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs rejected the request in September 2025, stating that she would not get a fair trial. followed by other update strips in the following issues. In the following June, Zerocalcare's comics on the Salis case were collected and published together with some unpublished ones in the volume This night will not be short.

Works I. Salis, Ivan Bonnin, Vipera, 2025 (autobiography) (in Italian)