The incident happened near the Carabinieri barracks in Giugliano where Cristina Liguori had gone to follow up the arrest of some people. Upon leaving she found the damage. She has received expressions of support. On the morning of the 8th January 2019, in Giugliano (Naples), individuals who remain unknown perforated – probably with a knife […]
The ECPMF and its partners are appalled and condemn Martinović’s conviction in a joint statement
The journalist is chief editor of LiveSicilia. The investigating judge has considered groundless the accusation made by the director of the Federico II Foundation. On December 20th , 2018 – the judge for preliminary investigations of Palermo, Fabrizio Molinari has set aside the complaints, considering them unfounded, filed by the director of the Federico II […]
Massimiliano Coccia received the threat in an anonymous letter delivered to the editorial offices. It is not the first time and it referred to other journalists. On October 30th 2018, in Rome, at the headquarters of Radio Radicale, the journalist Massimiliano Coccia received an anonymous letter with threats and anti-Semitic insults addressed to him and […]
The journalist was doing a broadcast a week after the demolition of the houses of the Casamonica clan. “Sooner or later you’ll be shot in the mouth” In Rome, the journalist Nello Trocchia of the television program Piazzapulita (La7 channel) and a video operator who was with him were attacked by two members of the […]
The program was interrupted by the publisher. The journalist Giuseppe Notaro, host of Radio Lontra, resigned in protest On the 6th November 2018 the Radio Lontra programme of the local radio station Radio Sicilia Avola, which broadcasts live, was interrupted for about 20 minutes on the initiative of the publisher. Shortly before, the journalist Paolo […]
“The fact does not constitute a crime”. The chief editor and the writer of an article had been sued in 2013 by a mayor. The prosecuting magistrate had sought a guilty verdict. On the 3rd July 2018 the judge of the Court of Biella acquitted Amos Giardino, collaborator of the online newspaper La Voce del […]
In May 2017 in San Luca Antonio Capillari attacked and threatened the TV team of Presadiretta and the reporter from La Repubblica. On October 3rd 2018 the prosecuting magistrate of the Court of Locri (Reggio Calabria) has requested the indictment of a 25 year old Calabrese, Antonio Capillari, for threats and attempted robbery, in collusion […]
The presidents of the Centro Pio Latorre and of the Regional Order of Journalists of Sicily congratulated Ossigeno for the first 10 years of its activity by hosting a conference in Palermo, as they had done previously in July 2008, with the meeting to mark the public debut of the Observatory “Press freedom now faces […]
Data on the outcome of trials in the courts of Sicily presented in Palermo on December 13th 2018 by Ossigeno on the tenth anniversary of its foundation. Each year, the Sicilian courts impose sentences of imprisonment for a total of 10 years and six months on defendants (mainly journalists) for libel in print . They […]