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Doddore Meloni
The 74-year-old Sardinian independence campaigner, Salvatore "Doddore" Meloni, died in a Cagliari hospital Wednesday after a two-month-long hunger strike in jail. Meloni was put in jail April 28 to serve time for tax evasion (he denied all charges). He was one of the best-known leaders of Sardinia's independence fight.
It's the only case about a man over the age of 70 arrested for minor financial crime in Italy.
It was found the flag of Sardinia and the Bobby Sands' biography book in his prison cell (the member of Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned).
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