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Berlusconi’s latest corruption conviction: integrity for sale

13 July 2015 in Impunity, Politics and government

Last week a Naples court sentenced Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to three years in prison for corrupting the political process by bribing a politician for his vote. Valter Lavitola, his “fixer” in this act, was also convicted. Neither will serve time. This was only the first court decision and both men have the […]

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Prison Abuse Protests: Georgia’s Abu Ghraib

26 September 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, People power, Politics and government, Whistleblowing

On September 18 Georgian opposition television stations warned their evening audiences that they were about to broadcast disturbing images of abuse by wardens at Gldani prison Nr. 8 in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital city. Many viewers were nevertheless unprepared for what they saw next. One video contained graphic images of prison inmates being sodomized by guards […]

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