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Montenegro: A well-known journalist wounded by gunshot near her house

News reported by the English daily newspaper The Guardian and OBCT The EU commissioner for enlargement, Johannes Hahn declared that this attack would affect negatively the negotiations for the entry of Montenegro into the EU. He warned Montenegro that the armed attack on the 8th May 2018 in Podgorica on the journalist, Olivera Lakic of

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Naples: Anonymous threats against the journalist Monica Cito

A note was found inside the car of the reporter from Il Roma. Denounced by SUGC and FNSI. Naples: the journalist, Monica Cito, collaborator with Il Roma, found a note in her car with an anonymous message which made explicit reference to several sources of crime news. It was found a few days after a

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

A Tg2 journalist insulted on Facebook for her reportage from the town of Cubeddu

After the death of the businessman Soffiantini, Francesca Romana Elisei went to Arzana (Nuoro) the town of the man who held him prisoner and who is still sought. The journalist Francesca Romana Elisei, an editor of Tg2 was insulted and threatened on Facebook, the day after the death of the Brescian businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, kidnapped

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

A further 25 intimidations of journalists recorded by Ossigeno in April 2018

To these can be added an additional 33 episodes of probable attacks notified to the institutions and to other associations with a request to verify them. In March 2018 Ossigeno per l’Informazione published the names of 25 journalists and other media workers subjected to serious and unjustifiable attacks committed in Italy with the aim of

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

May the 3rd and the 8th : 26,000 viewings on Twitter and 13,000 on Facebook

  All the figures on the participation on the social networks about the events of Ossigeno and AGCOM on the 3rd and 8th May dedicated to World Press Freedom Day. The events of Ossigeno and AGCOM of the 3rd and 8th May 2018 to celebrate World Press Freedom Day involve overall 26,000 Twitter users and

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

There is a risk that time will run out for the prosecution for threats made to Federica Angeli

A new trial is called for because the judge has asked for Armando Spada to be charged with a more serious offence and has petitioned the Rome prosecutor. On the 15th May 2018 the judge of the Rome Tribunal who should have issued a judgement responding to a request of the justice ministry to sentence

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Bologna: A lawsuit for an article yet the entire blog is blacked-out

After 4 days the prosecutor took better aim and blacked out only the disputed text. The barrister, Di Pietro defined the measure as disproportionate. On the 6th April, the Prosecutor of Bologna at the request of that of Brindisi sequestered the blog, Butac (Fake news at by the kilo) managed by Michelangelo Coltelli. This site

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

8th May Delmastro (AGCOM) talks of many threats but few articles about them

The director of the Communications Supervising Authority issues an invitation to combat the isolation of journalists. The chilling effect is contrary to the principles of the Constitution. “Among journalists threats are a clearly perceived problem. According to the statistics of Agcom’s Observatory on Journalism, at least one journalist in ten admits to being subject to

Source: O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione

Malta: Who will be the next?

Iris Rohmann, winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia grant from the German Reporter Forum, just got back from Malta, where she is investigating the circumstances of the Caruana Galizia murder on 16 October 2017. She gave us a short roundup of what she found out in just one week. The field where Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta (photo: Iris Rohmann) In mid-May 2018, I was travelling to Malta to talk to citizens, journalists and activists. My first conclusion is that the situation in Malta is alarming. And it is critical when it comes to the protection of press freedom…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Malta: Who will be the next?

Iris Rohmann, winner of the Daphne Caruana Galizia grant from the German Reporter Forum, just got back from Malta, where she is investigating the circumstances of the Caruana Galizia murder on 16 October 2017. She gave us a short roundup of what she found out in just one week. The field where Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in Malta (photo: Iris Rohmann) In mid-May 2018, I was travelling to Malta to talk to citizens, journalists and activists. My first conclusion is that the situation in Malta is alarming. And it is critical when it comes to the protection of press freedom…

Source: European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
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