VATICAN CITY
Telegraph (UK)
By Nick Squires, Vatican City State 24 Nov 2015
Two journalists who went on trial in the Vatican on Tuesday on charges of publishing leaked Holy See documents denounced their trial as “absurd” and “Kafkaesque”.
Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi are among five people on trial, accused of leaking and publishing documents that revealed widespread waste and financial mismanagement within the Vatican. They could all face up to eight years in jail.
At the first hearing, which lasted barely more than an hour, Mr Fittipaldi read out a statement to the court.
“I am incredulous in finding myself here as a defendant in a country that is not mine,” he said.
He said the trial contravened press freedoms that were enshrined in the Italian constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
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