A bad year has ended but 2020 has also begun badly
The seriousness of the phenomenon of intimidation is now well known and documented, but countermeasures are slow in coming
Entries by Alberto Spampinato
If journalists reported better the news on threats
The lack of media attention given to threats on reporters is wearying.
Police and video footage: rules and fair play
Police officers cannot delete or seize photos and videos without a magistrate’s warrant. The case of Cosimo Caridi in Rome is emblematic.
Reporter in trouble for a phone call to a magistrate
Silvio Leoni was subject to a search, the confiscation of his mobile phone and is under investigation for serious offences for telephoning the President of the Court of Assizes of Bologna
2019. Ossigeno Colloquium on violations of right to information. The Ossigeno proposals
These speech was pronounced by the president Alberto Spampinato at the meeting held in the Bruxelles’ Press Club on November 6, 2019
The delays Italy must explain to the UN
Non-compliance with regard to information freedom indicated by Ossigeno to the HR Commission in view of the four-year UPR review
8 years in first instance to a journalist
The case of Gabriele Carchidi, subjected to 179 penal trials (35 hearings in the last month) for libel and the draft bill to abolish imprisonment
Two more journalists provided with police protection
The journalists Nello Scavo of Avvenire and the freelancer Nancy Porsia were threatened by the former head of the Libyan coast guard mysteriously present in Sicily.
Judges of Pavia: Don’t shoot at reporters
Journalists going to war zones are collective witnesses that document the facts and stem the disproportionate and inhuman use of military force. Too often those who kill them go unpunished.
Copies in the editorial offices of Fanpage. An empty trip
The prosecutor of Rovigo has requested the original footage of the investigation into the scandal involving refuse in Veneto region. The chief editor did not hand them over so as not to reveal the identity of the trusted sources On June 17th 2019 the journalist Francesco Piccinini, chief editor of the online newsletter Fanpage, refused […]