Faces of Emergency for the release of the members arrested on April 10, 2010 in Afghanistan

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On Saturday, April 10, soldiers of the Afghan army and the International Coalition Forces attacked the Emergency Surgical Centre of Lashkar-gah and arrested members of the national and international staff. Three of them are Italian citizens: Matteo Dell'Aira, Marco Garatti e Matteo Pagani.

On Saturday, April 17, supporters of Emergency staged a...
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On Saturday, April 10, soldiers of the Afghan army and the International Coalition Forces attacked the Emergency Surgical Centre of Lashkar-gah and arrested members of the national and international staff. Three of them are Italian citizens: Matteo Dell'Aira, Marco Garatti e Matteo Pagani.

On Saturday, April 17, supporters of Emergency staged a sit-in in Piazza San Giovanni, Rome to rush for negotiations and release of the members of the organization in the respect of fundamental human rights.
Emergency urged all citizens to participate with a white cloth of peace, waiving any party flags and symbols.

Emergency defines itself an independent and neutral Italian organisation, established to provide high quality medical and surgical treatment for free to civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty.

Since 1999, EMERGENCY in Afghanistan has provided medical assistance free-of-charge to over 2,500,000 Afghan citizens, by establishing three surgical hospitals, a maternity centre and a network of 28 first aid posts
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