Judges Deny Human Rights Plea at Vatican Leaks Trial

By Tom Kington
The Times
November 24, 2015

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article4622616.ece

Tom Kington Vatican City

Five people went on trial at the Vatican yesterday over the leaking of secrets after judges rejected a request from one of them to drop the case saying that it violated human rights.

Emiliano Fittipaldi, one of two authors who published books detailing greed and corruption at the Vatican, told the court that he was “incredulous” to find himself on trial for “simply having published news”.

Mr Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi face up to eight years for revealing the findings of a Vatican committee set up by the Pope in 2013 to root out waste and murky deals at the...