A controversial personage, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh is being persecuted. Many countries are denying an entry visa to the spiritual leader of the "saffron robes". Italy is one of these, where the case reached Parliament thanks to the commitment of the Radical senators and parliamentarians, a popular petition which the Chamber of deputies has recognised as well-founded, and to a hunger strike which lasted nearly a month, led by the Federal Secretary of the Radical Party, Majid. The Government in Parliament replied that Bhagwan would be granted a visa to enter Italy, but for a short period.