Italian editor Alessandro Sallusti was sentenced to 14 months in jail for 2007 article “Italy’s highest” court found to be libelous, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported.
Sallusti edited the article in question, which “suggested that a juvenile court magistrate, who had allowed a 13-year-old girl the right to an abortion, should be given the death penalty” and carried an anonymous byline. As CPJ explained, “The magistrate filed a defamation complaint and a Milan court ruled that, as the editor, Sallusti bore responsibility for the publication of the anonymous article.”