Rai: fit for protect the safety of journalists on the spot
While the Russian parliament approves the law that provides for up to 15 years in prison for those who speak of “invasion”, Rai and Mediaset withdraw journalists from Moscow. “Following the approval of the legislation that provides for severe prison sentences for the publication of news deemed false by the authorities, starting today the Rai suspends the journalistic services of its envoys and correspondents from the Russian Federation”Rai said in a press release.
“The measure becomes necessary in order to protect the safety of journalists on the spot and – we read – the maximum freedom in information relating to the country. The news on what is happening in the Russian Federation will for the moment be provided on the basis of a plurality of sources by the company’s journalists working in neighboring countries and in the central editorial offices in Italy. “The decision of Viale Mazzini is followed closely by Biscione.
“We too must we will collect the envoy from Russia. The rules are so punitive that nothing can be done ”, explained the director of the Tg5, Clemente Mimunannouncing to theAdnkronos the withdrawal of the newspaper’s correspondent in Russia after the approval by the Duma, the parliament of Moscow, of a law that provides for the jail time for anyone who spreads news about the war deemed “false” by the Russian government. A decision that was also taken yesterday by Bbc.
“To work in Russia, journalists must have a permit. I have no correspondents, but an envoy still without permission. Now, however, forced by these new rules, we will make him come back“.” Russia is losing on several fronts – adds the director of Tg5 – because on the ground in Ukraine it is encountering more difficulties than it imagined, economically it has already lost 300 billion euros, and on that of the media Putin, who is not a fool, knows how important information is and therefore places limitations. I believe that at the end of this war the Human Rights Tribunal will have a lot of work to do and I also believe that not all Russians know what their government is up to. Moreover, even in Ukraine things are not different for journalists: Ukrainians – he explains – are suspicious because they fear Russian spies, and Russian soldiers do not go too far with reporters. After the years of Mani Pulite in which notoriety was linked to the quantity of reports received from the Prosecutor’s Office, and after the Covid which was told through press conferences and vaccination policy, now – concludes Mimun – with the war the attention is focuses on the story of the envoys, which however becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, with Russian limitations “.
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