ROME (AP) — Italian journalists and lawmakers on Friday protested the wiretapping of reporters’ phone calls during investigations into Libya-based migrant trafficking and humanitarian rescue groups. Primo Di Nicola, a senator from the populist 5-Star Movement who is on a parliamentary oversight commission regarding RAI, said he has proposed a bill to safeguard journalists from the wiretapping of calls with sources. The National Italian Press Federation, a journalists' union, denounced the wiretapping. It demanded to know who authorized it and said if the aim was to discover reporters' sources, then journalists' professional rights were violated. Protecting sources is at the basis of journalists' work," Di Nicola said.

Source: Libya Today April 02, 2021 18:56 UTC