VIENNA
Business Standard
Vienna, Nov 24 (IANS/AKI) The Vatican should drop an imminent trial of two Italian journalists who published stolen confidential documents in new exposes of graft and financial mismanagement at the Holy See, a Vienna-based watchdog has said.
“Journalists must be free to report on public interests and to protect their confidential sources,” the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s media freedom envoy Dunja Mijatovic said on Monday.
“I call on the authorities not to proceed with the charges and protect journalists’ rights in accordance with OSCE commitments,” Mijatovic added.
The Holy See is one of the 57 members of OSCE, a Vienna-based European security and democracy watchdog.
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