Italy - Increase in attacks and threats against Italian journalists

Reporters without borders

With the help of Ossigeno per l'Informazione, an Italian NGO that monitors freedom of information, Reporters Without Borders has produced this overview of the disturbing decline in the situation of journalists in Italy in 2014, a year marked by threats, physical attacks, torched cars and defamation suits. In one of the latest examples of intimidation by the Sicilian mafia, Reporters Without Borders “information hero” Giuseppe “Pino” Maniaci, an investigative journalist who heads the Sicilian TV (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 15 décembre 2014