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Italy. Twenty journalists under police escort, say Government to Ossigeno 65% lives in the Lazio region. The unpublished figures illustrated for the first time during the National Council of the Order convened in Rome Protection for journalists. The Un enters the fray in force Presented in Geneva a plan for the mobilization of all United
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
For an article that reported involvement of the CEO in an investigation by the Prosecutor of Salerno’s on alleged irregularities in product bulletins of pharmaceutical drugs The State Polygraph and State Mint has announced a lawsuit against the online news outlet Cronache della Campania for a June 13, 2017 article (read) by the freelance journalist
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The association “Essere Animali” had published a video about suspected abuses on pigs. It appealed to the Review Tribunal Following a lawsuit for libel filed by the Parma Ham Consortium against the association Essere Animali, on June 1, 2017, the Court of Bologna ordered the seizure of a video hosted on the web page Prosciutto
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Gennaro Del Giudice (Cronaca Flegrea) denounced five death threats from a man wanting the publishing of articles about him The journalist Gennaro Del Giudice, chief editor of the online news outlet Cronaca Flegrea, made known on his Facebook profile page on July 2, 2017, how for four months he has been the target of insults
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
For an article that criticizes their investigations, the journalists Alessandro Bongarzone and Nevio Ronconi and the publisher Tuttifrutti have been cited The Prosecutor of Ravenna, Alessandro Mancini, and Deputy Prosecutor Angela Scorza have cited for defamation two journalists and a publisher asking for a total compensation of 120’000 euros (50’000 euros for damage compensation and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Abuse of public funds and tabloids used as means for stifling “dissent” undermine democracy and ultimately stability in the Western Balkans. The speech by Dragan Janjić at the Civil Society Forum held in Trieste on July 11, 2017
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Following the publication of a journalistic inquiry, the Associated Press agency also reported reactions and the counter arguments from the hospital’s management We are forced to “take appropriate action to protect the reputation and honour of this Institution and of the people involved”. With these words, the management of the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), Freedom house, Global Editors Network (GEN), Index on Censorhip, International Press Institute (IPI), South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) have written to Polish defence minister Antoni Macierewicz urging him to withdraw his criminal complaint against Tomasz Piatek, the author of a new book about the minister’s alleged network of questionable Russian contacts.
Media freedom organisations send a protest letter to the Polish Defense Minister
An investigative reporter for the independent newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza", Piatek is facing a possible two to three-year…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Threats against the journalist Ilario Filippone from Locri referenced in the Ordinance of the Prosecutor’s Office that on July 4th arrested the author and other 115 people “On the soul of my uncle, may my sister Natalia die, I must grab him and I must carve his eyes out with the screwdriver!” So Domenico Zucco,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
At the heart of the issue, the articles on the ‘Panta Rei’ trial against 40 defendants from mafia association charges for which the judge Nicola Aiello was also threatened In Palermo an anonymous letter containing threats to the journalist Salvo Palazzolo, editor of the newspaper la Repubblica, was delivered by post, on July 7, 2017,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
