Italy: Police search violates confidentiality of anti-mafia reporter’s sources

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns last week’s police search of the home of Salvo Palazzolo, an investigative reporter who specializes in covering the Sicilian mafia and other criminal networks for the Rome-based newspaper La Repubblica.Police searched Palazzolo’s home on 13 September on the orders of prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Catania as part of an investigation into a suspected leak violating the confidentiality of a ju

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