Italy

For more than 40 years, the Mafia has been targeting journalists who try to expose the organisation's criminal activities, says an Italian media watchdog. In a new report, the Italian-based rights group Information Safety and Freedom (ISF) says that nine journalists have been murdered by the mafia since 1960, from Cosimo Cristina who was killed in Sicily in 1960 to Beppe Alfano in 1993. Many other

ROME - Italian journalists were on strike on Saturday in protest at a draft law banning the publication of transcripts and wiretapped conversations being used in judicial enquiries. The bill would ban the use of any court document until a case has come to trial and provides for heavy fines of tens of thousands of euros (dollars) for journalists breaking the law. It has already been passed on a...