ROME
News 24
Rome – The Vatican should drop plans to try two journalists who obtained leaked documents from a papal reform committee, a media freedom watchdog said on Monday, on the eve of the start of criminal proceedings.
“I call on the authorities not to proceed with the charges and protect journalists’ rights in accordance with OSCE commitments,” the media freedom envoy of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Dunja Mijatovic, said in a statement.
The Holy See, which represents the Vatican in international affairs, is one of the 57 members of OSCE, a Vienna-based European security and democracy watchdog.
Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi both published leak-based books this month, which accuse some top prelates of living in outrageous luxury and resisting Pope Francis’ drive to clean up Vatican finances.
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