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“Eight months in prison for defamation in the press plus compensation for damages and legal costs. This is the sentence issued by the Court of Nola for the journalist Pasquale Napolitano“. The Unitary Union of Journalists of Campania, “to which the colleague is registered, has already activated its legal office to prepare an appeal against the honorary judge’s decision which we believe is absolutely disproportionate. The thousand-word article, just fifteen lines, was published by the online newspaper Anteprima24 and concerns the Nola Bar Association for a 2020 affair.” “Precisely for a cause that concerned Pasquale Napolitano the SUGC presented the objection of unconstitutionality which then led to the Council’s decision to declare prison for journalists unconstitutional. It is singular that such a sentence comes from a non-professional judge and which does not in any way contemplate what has been established by the Constitutional Court, albeit for another article of law, on prison for journalists”, concludes the note from the Sugc.
