The International Press Institute (IPI) today criticised an Italian court’s decision upholding an editor’s 14-month prison sentence for criminal libel, but the press freedom group expressed hope that the decision could lead to long-overdue reforms of Italian defamation law. A statement posted on Italian President Giorgio Napolitano’s website yesterday said that he and Justice Minister […]

The Central European Initiative (CEI), in cooperation with the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has launched a Call for Proposals for the 2012 Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism. The application deadline is June 30, 2012. The award is open to nationals of 18 CEI […]

An Italian television station argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday that the Italian government should pay the station over two billion Euros for not allowing it to take to the airwaves for eleven years. Centro Europa 7 told judges at the Strasbourg court that the sanction was the only way to […]

Four Italian journalists who were kidnapped on Wednesday and whose driver was killed are now being held by pro-Qaddafi militants in Tripoli, according to news reports. The Italian journalists were abducted just after thirty-five journalists who had been trapped in the Rixos hotel for days were finally freed. Unknown men stopped their vehicle near Zawiya, […]