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Italian agency to review Internet filtering project

Published on 7 July 2011Read

UN’s special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression joins the OSCE in calling for withdrawal of “gag law”

Published on 13 July 2010Read

July 9th, the information blackout in Italy : "A foretaste of what could happen in Italy..."

In an interview posted online, Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard has voiced support for all the Italian (...)

Published on 7 July 2010 Read

Last chance for senators to block ban on publishing phone taps

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal to Italy’s senators not to pass the phone-tapping draft law, which is about to be approved by the (...)

Published on 25 May 2010 Read

State broadcaster suspends political discussion programmes ahead of regional elections

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by a decision by the board of governors of the state-owned broadcaster RAI to suspend all political (...)

Published on 4 March 2010 Read

Google conviction could lead to prior control over videos posted online

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the six-month suspended jail sentences which a Milan court passed today on three Google (...)

Published on 24 February 2010 Read

Government wants to clamp down on online video

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a proposed government decree drafted by communications undersecretary Paolo Romani that would (...)

Published on 20 January 2010 Read

Berlusconi wants to strangle the wrong octopus

Reporters Without Borders has asked Lirio Abbate, an Italian journalist who specialises in organised crime, to say what he thinks of Italian (...)

Published on 9 December 2009 Read

Reporters Without Borders in Rome to defend press freedom

More than 100,000 people attended a rally in support of press freedom in Rome on 3 October at which journalists, unionists and well-known (...)

Published on 5 October 2009 Read

Reporters Without Borders in Rome as Berlusconi gets closer to being declared a “Predator”

At a news conference today in Rome with Viva Zapatero director Sabina Guzzanti, Reporters Without Borders called on Italian Prime Minister Silvio (...)

Published on 2 October 2009 Read

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Italy - 10 August 2011

Internet agency retreats on filtering, but does not give up

Italy - 8 August 2011

Heavy fines for two independent newspapers

Italy - 3 August 2011

Nakhchivan authorities continue to harass IRFS correspondent

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