Celebrating Dick Marty, a Human Rights Champion
A human rights hero was rightly honored last week.
Dick Marty earned a reputation in the 1980s as a dogged prosecutor of organized crime in the Swiss canton of Ticino. He later joined the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly where he produced a series of hard-hitting reports, exposing human rights abuses by powerful forces.
On December 1, the Council of Europe honored these achievements by
