ROME
Telegraph (UK)
By Nick Squires, Rome 23 Nov 2015
Two journalists who will be put on trial by the Vatican for allegedly receiving leaked documents revealing corruption and waste in the Holy See have claimed they are being unfairly persecuted.
Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, who both recently published books based on the leaked documents, have accused the Vatican of attacking press freedom.
The reporters, the first journalists to appear before a papal tribunal, will go on trial along with three other people after they were charged with what the Holy See called “the unauthorised and illicit sharing of sensitive and privileged documents and information.”
If convicted, they could be jailed for up to eight years.
The pair said they were astounded that they were being put on trial when the Vatican appeared to have done little to punish those behind the alleged wrongdoing within the stone walls of the city state.
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