Germany. Attacks to journalists tripled in 2018
Out of the 26 assaults occurring, all but four were perpetrated by right-wing extremists or so-called ‘concerned citizens’
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Bari. Scagliarini acquitted. It was ruled to be not defamation
The judge rejected the claim for damages made by the former chairman of the Fiera di Bari and sentenced him to pay the legal fees of the other party The legitimate exercise of the right to inform, protected by Article 21 of the Constitution, is subject to three requirements: the truth of the fact narrated, […]
Head of a goat placed on a journalist’s car
In Catania Fabiola Foti (L’Urlo) reported the presence of previous offenders among the bearers of the statue of the patron Saint Agata. In the night between the 8th and the 9th February 2019, in Acicatena (Catania) someone left two goat heads, bloody and skinned, on the windscreen of the car of the journalist Fabiola Foti, […]
Perhaps we are not under investigation. The municipality sues
In Tagliacozzo 4,000 euro have been set aside to pay for a lawyer. Three newspapers had reported a visit to the municipal offices by the police to acquire documents Probably there is no investigation into my municipality, said the mayor of Tagliacozzo, announcing legal action for revenge against the three newspapers that had reported a […]
Oxygen has ascertained 13 other threats
Between the 29th January and the 7th February 2019 there has been more than one a day. Read below the names of targeted reporters and the details Oxygen for Information believes that the episodes described below represent unjustifiable violations of freedom of expression and of the press. The following thirteen journalists directly affected were added […]
Truth for Jan Kuciak killed one year ago
Call for justice and accountability of state authorities on the anniversary of the murder of Jan Kuciak
Paolo Berizzi given police protection: “I am not afraid”
Since 2017 Berizzi has had occasional protection but after the latest threats, his risk profile has changed and he will now be protected by the Carabinieri. “I’m not afraid, I will continue to do my job as before,” Paolo Berizzi said on February 7th 2018, the first day of his life as a journalist under […]
Sciarelli acquitted after 13 years of legal processes
The exercise of the right to report was recognized by the Supreme Court. She had been sued by a magistrate for the phrases spoken in 2005 on the television programme “Who has seen it?” It took three tiers of judgment and thirteen and a half years to absolve definitively a journalist and a television director, […]
Three reporters from Striscia la Notizia are threatened
The reporters were involved in three different episodes; Luca Abete in Naples, Edoardo Stoppa in San Ferdinando di Puglia, Vittorio Brumotti and his troupe in Milan Luca Abete La Striscia‘s correspondent, Luca Abete, was heavily insulted in Naples by a man who tried to hit him with a stone despite the intervention of a security […]
Migrants. The case against Raffaella Cosentino is dismissed
The freelance journalist of L’Espresso, defended by Ossigeno, had been sued for an article on financial enrichment in Calabria at the expense of refugees The Rai journalist Raffaella Cosentino, a freelance contributor, in 2015, to the weekly magazine L’Espresso, was acquitted by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations in Rome, Claudio Carini, on charges of defaming […]