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Prison for press law violation in EU founding member
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR1732.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 28/09/2012
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders denounces as outrageous the sentencing of an Italian journalist to 14 months in prison on a libel conviction.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders denounces as outrageous the sentencing of an Italian journalist to 14 months in prison on a libel conviction.
The 5th chamber of the Cassation Court upheld on 26 September the sentence of Alessandro Sallusti, for having authorized the publication of a February, 2007 article in the daily Libero, concerning an abortion performed on a 13-year-old girl. Signed under a pseudonym, the article was deemed libelous in regard to a judge in Turin.
Sallusti was the newspaperâ...
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