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Italian police have confiscated hundreds of photographs taken of allegedly topless women at Silvio Berlusconi’s villa in Sardinia, after a court appeal ruled in favour of the Prime Minister, deeming the photos to be an invasion of privacy. Read more here
The Italian government is attempting to make web-based dissent a crime, says Cecilia Anesi
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Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti will not face charges over alleged insults of Pope Benedict XVI. At a political rally in July, Guzzanti had joked that the Pope would go to Hell when he died, where he would be harassed by ‘poofter devils’.
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Italians are protesting against proposed laws that could make investigative journalism almost impossible, writes Cecilia Anesi
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