Ten probable intimidations identified – 9th July 2018

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A summary of violations of press freedom committed in Italy by…

Sea Watch 3 Police obtain a copy of the reporters’ film on migrant rescue

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The mobile police squad of Reggio Calabria insisted on the copy on the instruction of the Prosecutor – a practice at the limit of correctness

There was no defamation in Ruotolo’s interview with Carmine Schiavone

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The businessman Paolo Berlusconi had asked for damages of 1.5 million euro. Instead the civil court of Rome has ruled that he will have to reimburse 20,000 euro of legal costs.

A reporter from il Mattino subject to searches and confiscation of her computer, both at home and in her office in Padua

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Cristina Genesin is accused of violation of an investigation secret, and the director and deputy-director accused of a failure to control.

Telex. Dunja Mijatovic (CoE): Democracy and a free press go hand-in-hand

If journalists cannot work freely and safely it becomes more difficult to unearth human rights violations, corruption or misuse of power, Dunja Mijatovic says to Ossigeno

Ossigeno – BAD NEWS from Italy| 18 June 2018

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The last news about attacks and violations of freedom of the…

Telex from Malta. Daphne Caruana Galizia: Wrong to elect corrupt politicians

We can no longer blame corrupt politicians because we can no longer deny corrupt politicians are a reflection of society, Daphne Caruana Galizia said on 5 June 2017, some months before she was brutally killed in Malta

Telex from Vienna. Oliver Vujovic (SEEMO): States tolerate violations

Violations of press freedom reached 149 in 2017 in the 32 countries of south, east and central Europe. the real number of attacks and threats against media and journalists is far higher

Telex from London. Jodie Ginsberg (Index): monitoring and protection of journalists needed

Not enough is being done to protect journalists. Governments have a responsibility in creating a safe environment.

Telex. Turkish escaped journalist: Journalism is our breath

And today it is still not free. There are pens and brains serving a death sentence. Our world is the one of "Fahrenheit 451"