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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8428

25 March 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/drugs
Marco Cappato jailed in Manchester for a week

Brussels, 24/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The member of the Bonino List, Marco Cappato MEP, who for ten years now has been leading an drug "antiprohibitionist" campaign, was arrested in Manchester on 21 March and sentenced to a week in prison for having refused to pay a fine inflicted on him for n act of civil disobedience. On 15 December 2001, the MEP decided to deliberately violate the British "Misuse of Drugs Act", handing himself in to the police in Stockport for being in possession of a...

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