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<br>Press  release  <br><br>OSCE Representative  on  Freedom  of  the Media  urges<br>Italian  Senate  to  drop  law  proposals  restricting  free  flow  of<br>information.<br><br><br>VIENNA, 24  June 2009  - Miklos Haraszti,  the OSCE  Representative on<br>
Freedom of the  Media asked the Italian legislature  today to drop two<br>planned legal  provisions that would restrict freedom  on the Internet<br>and reporting on court cases.<br><br>&quot;The  provisions  fail  to  acknowledge  several  international  media<br>
freedom standards,&quot; Haraszti wrote in a letter to the President of the<br>Council  of Ministers,  the President  of the  Senate and  the Justice<br>Minister.<br><br>The proposal &quot;on public security&quot;  would impose fines of up to 250,000<br>
euros  on  Internet service  providers  that  do  not block  materials<br>believed to instigate or glorify criminal acts. The lower house of the<br>Parliament  voted in  May  to  delete this  provision,  but the  final<br>
version is still to be announced by the Senate.<br><br>A draft law &quot;on  telephone surveillance and electronic eavesdropping&quot;,<br>approved  on  11  June  by  the lower  house,  would  prohibit  public<br>references  to any documents  related to  court proceedings  or police<br>
investigations    prior    to    the   conclusion    of    preliminary<br>investigations. Violators would face imprisonment up to five years.<br><br>&quot;The  draft  does not  provide  for  exemptions  for cases  where  the<br>
published  information was  in the  public interest.  Neither  does it<br>differentiate  between  the officials  leaking  information and  those<br>passing it on or publishing it,&quot; Haraszti said.<br><br>&quot;These deficiencies are inadmissible  in a democracy that acknowledges<br>
the citizens&#39; right to know.&quot;<br><br>Haraszti  stressed  that  information   -  even  sometimes  leaked  by<br>officials  -  may  play  an   important  role  in  the  fight  against<br>corruption.<br><br>&quot;The  passing of  such information  should not  be  punished, provided<br>
there is the defence of having  acted in &#39;good faith&#39;, that is, in the<br>public interest,&quot;  he said.  Haraszti  asked the Senate to  follow the<br>suggestions  of the  lower house  regarding  the draft  law on  public<br>
security, and  to bring  the draft law  on telephone  surveillance and<br>electronic eavesdropping  in line  with OSCE commitments  and European<br>press freedom standards.<br>