“Libero” offensive headlines. Belpietro acquitted
The Coordination of the Islamic associations of Milan and Monza contested the title “Islamic Bastards”, published in 2015 after the attacks in Paris
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Impunity. The gag of libel in Italy. Dossier by Ossigeno
Shut up or I’ll sue you! The effects of the laws on libel in Italy Every year, 6813 cases, 155 sentences, 100 years of prison ANALYSIS OF OFFICIAL DATA OF THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE THIS DOSSIER Ossigeno per l’Informazione has published this dossier on the occasion of the initiatives that it promoted, together with the […]
Freedom of the press is a not well protected right
Federica Delogu Ossigeno per l’Informazione would like to draw attention to the most serious and increasingly frequent violations of freedom of the press and expression in European democracies particularly through intimidation and threats to journalists and bloggers. Many abuses of the law go unpunished because of numerous legal loopholes. These violations are neither well known […]
Violations, lack of legislation and loopholes
A number of press freedom violations could be prevented by filling some gaps in the law, some gaps of legal rules. Oxygen has indicated some of these gaps in Italian law. The most serious is the lack of criminal protection of press freedom. In Italy, as in other Western countries, freedom of expression and the […]
If the newspapers worked like trains
Alberto Spampinato There are issues which we think we know well but from which we omit some particular and essential aspects until someone or something points them out. It happened to me many years ago in Sicily when my brother was killed. That experience, which I have described in a book which I hope to […]
Why meetings with Ossigeno in Berlin and Madrid
In Italy the number of serious violations of freedom of the press registered by ossigeno is high and impressive and finally everybody admit it is true. But what happen in similar countries of Europe? No violations occur, as it seems by newspapers clipping? Or the same mass of violations also occur but is covered by […]
It’s not called censorship but it gags journalists throughout Europe. What is it?
A proposal from Ossigeno to uncover it and combat it.