Comments on: The ‘anything goes’ party https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: daphnecaruanagalizia.com https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62896 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:51:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62896 The e2 80 98anything goes e2 80 99 party.. Amazing :)

]]> By: PR https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62895 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:01:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62895 It is a shame, Daphne, that you have been convicted of criminal defamation and fined, for writing this article. It is a sad day for journalism and for freedom of the press (and of expression) in Malta.

If it was your word against his, why did the magistrate conclude that your version was false? Put in the context of what took place during interrogations in those years, every impartial person would conclude that yours is the true version of what took place.

Tell us – did Anglu Farrugia take the witness stand in this libel case, and did he deny interrogating you and writing your “confession”? I look forward to the appeal(s).

[Daphne – Yes, he lied under oath. These people seem to take their oaths very lightly: track record so far – Jason Micallef, Consuelo Herrera, Anglu Farrugia.]

]]> By: Court expert https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62894 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:47:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62894 In reply to R Camilleri.

Mario Bean, you raise a valid point about Cardinal Bagnasco. Is the Cardinal a new authority on freedom of expression?

]]> By: Patrick V. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62893 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:27:06 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62893 In reply to Corinne Vella.

http://www.anglufarrugia.org/modules/xoopstube/singlevideo.php?cid=1&lid=1

]]> By: Mario Bean https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62892 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:03:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62892 In reply to R Camilleri.

But still the biased magistrate (senior magistrate, if you please) ignored all this. And since when do our courts quote Cardinal Bagnasco? This is new to me even though I’m not quite conversant with legalities.

Every person in Malta knows what used to happen 30 years ago, EXCEPT this honourable magistrate.

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62891 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:06:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62891 In reply to ciccio2010.

ciccio2010, that’s exactly Gadget’s aim. Joseph and his team are doing their utmost to get rid of this nemesis.

]]> By: interested bystander https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62890 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:34:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62890 “Somewhere in a cupboard, there is an 11-page judgement handed down by Magistrate David Scicluna, condemning in the harshest terms possible the actions of Anglu Farrugia and his colleagues”

Please dig this out and let us read it.

]]> By: M. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62889 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:45:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62889 In reply to gianni.

The “prelat” mentioned in today’s judgement as having been assaulted/attacked/whatever by Daphne – a Patri Mudest – had, if I recall correctly, testified quite clearly back in 1984 that it was not Daphne who attacked him, but an old woman (“wahda xiha”).

]]> By: gianni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62888 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:07:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62888 Daphne, who were the other girls that were arrested that evening. Their statements can be of utmost importance.

[Daphne – We were held separately.The point at issue here is not whether or not I was arrested, but the conditions in which I was kept. The person who was held in the cell next to mine did testify.]

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/10/the-%e2%80%98anything-goes%e2%80%99-party/#comment-62887 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:10:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8315#comment-62887 In reply to Jose il-Hussy.

http://www.article19.org/pdfs/conferences/criminal-def-eu-ngo-paper.pdf

The point that Anglu Farrugia seems to have missed:

Freedom of expression is a key human right. Not only is it a fundamental human value in and of itself, freedom of expression also provides a key underpinning for democracy – there can be no democracy if people are not free to say what they want and do not receive sufficient information to cast an informed vote – and it is key to enforcing other rights.

Didn’t he, a trained lawyer, like the idea of delegati casting informed votes?

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