Loris Fortuna

Loris Fortuna was an Italian politician who was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1985 and is best known as an advocate of both civil rights and social rights, and for being among the main promoters of the laws that legalised and decriminalised divorce and abortion in Italy. Born in Breno but raised in Udine, Fortuna was a partisan and member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II. In April 1944, he was captured by the Nazis, tried by a Nazi German court in the Adriatic Coast, and sentenced to forced labour in the Bernau am Chiemsee penitentiary in Upper Bavaria, which he reached in December 1944, and from which he was freed after the war.