Italian journalists union Fnsi said
Thursday that it is set to stage a series of protests against a
bill that would ban the publication of the contents of
preventative-detention warrants, saying it was a "gag" that
violates the right to report the news.
Fnsi said it would stage an extraordinary meeting of its
executive on Thursday to organize the "mobilization" of Italian
journalists and civil society against the bill.
"We are already asking the President Sergio Mattarella not to
sign a law that could be the source of enormous distortions of
rights," said Fnsi Secretary General Alessandra Costante.
"This is a freedom-killing measure, not only with respect to
article 21 of the Constitution, but also with respect to
individual freedoms.
"It is very dangerous not to know whether a person has been
arrested or not.
"And it is not only dangerous for the freedom of the press, it
is also dangerous for the recipient of the
preventative-detention order.
"The memory of dictatorships, of the disappeared, of the people
who vanish at the gates of Europe without anyone knowing
anything about it, Alexei Navalny, for example, must raise our
attention, including the attention of newspaper editors, who
must join their journalist colleagues in this fight, and of the
institutions".
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