A statement by the head of the European desk of RSF urges the intervention of the Provincial Committee for Public Order and Security On the 14th March 2019 Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) urged the Italian authorities to provide a higher level of protection to the journalist Marilù Mastrogiovanni (read here) confirming a measure anticipated by […]
To cover the expenses of the lawyers who assist with free voluntary services (pro bono) or at special conditions the reporters subject to vexatious lawsuits. Oxygen for Information has set up a bonus in favour of reporters sued vexatiously in order to extend the coverage of its Free Legal Aid Office to those reporters sued […]
The target was Monica Andolfatto of Il Gazzettino for her articles. The plan came to light in February 2019 from the accounts of the anti-camorra investigation “At Least”. In 2009, several members of organized crime wanted to intimidate, with gunshots the journalist Monica Andolfatto of the newspaper Gazzettino di Venezia to block her accurate job […]
In Belgium “Xpress” was born, a new association of journalists with offices in Brussels, Liege and Antwerp. It intends to support journalists who, because of their work, suffer threats, intimidation and spurious lawsuits. It also proposes to defend journalists’ sources and informants, who suffer similar attacks. The declared purpose is: to help every journalist, photojournalist, […]
The man accused of the Italian photojournalist’s murder told the judges in Pavia that he was only to monitor the area and raise the alarm. This report by Giacomo Bertoni was prepared by Ossigeno for Information in collaboration with La Provincia Pavese, National Union of Italian Reporters, the Lombardy Order of Journalists in order to […]
Ros Belford was sued for remarking upon in the Rough Guide a greater tendency among restaurateurs in Agrigento, compared to the rest of Sicily, to perpetrate small scams. Agrigento is beautiful. Woe betide saying that it is poor, that the Mafia has put down roots, that restaurateurs tend to take advantage of customers more than […]
“A year ago they killed a colleague and his girlfriend. We have not forgotten. And we’re not going to go away.” Between the 18th and the 21st February 2019, one year after the assassination of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, in Slovakia more than 480 journalists signed a declaration entitled “Nezabúdame” (Let’s not forget). (see […]
The Catanzaro Public Prosecutor’s Office has completed its investigation. The fire dates back to 2014. Amoroso had published photos of some people suspected of robbery and extortion. The Public Prosecutor of Catanzaro, in February 2019, notified four suspects of the conclusion of the investigation for the setting alight, on the 31st January 2014, of the […]
The journalist Matteo Lauria had been sued by Nicola Tridico, former president of the examining committee of a competition for social workers. The publisher and a politician had also been cited. Only on December 29th 2018 the judge of the Court of Castrovillari, Guglielmo Manera, acting alone, rejected the claim for compensation made 15 years […]
Report on the worrying Italian news of last weeks. The alarming trend seen this year: an average of one fact-checked threats each day