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The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, yesterday called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero.

R-l: The Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Teuta Arifi and the Representative of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office, Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, addressing journalists, Skopje

A voter casting her ballot at a polling station in Lagoisk, 23 September 2012.

(L-r) Adam Rotfeld, the former Foreign Minister of Poland, addresses the Opening Plenary of the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, as Douglas Wake, the First Deputy Director of OSCE/ODIHR, and Frank Cogan, the Head of the Irish OSCE Chairmanship Taskforce, listen. Warsaw, 24 September 2012.

The Iranian government should immediately reverse policies that place unnecessary restrictions on academic freedom for university students, in particular women.

Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed.