Italy: IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati
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Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati, Brussels correspondent for the Agenzia Nova news agency, was told his collaboration with the agency was stopped ...

News is from last year, but it’s still dystopic for anyone that missed it:

At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”

on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.

The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”

  • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
    151·
    6 days ago

    Thousands of children have been deported to the Russian Federation or transferred to occupied areas in Ukraine by Russian authorities, according to the Commission. It has so far verified the deportation or transfer of over 1,200 children from five regions in Ukraine.

    https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/un-commission-concludes-deportation-and-forcible-transfer-ukrainian-children

    Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an estimated 20,000 Ukrainian childrenhave been unlawfully deported and forcibly transferred to Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

    https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-solidarity-ukraine/bringing-ukrainian-children-back-home_en

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166507

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-expands-forced-re-education-deported-ukrainian-children-us-research-shows-2025-09-16/

    • Riverside@reddthat.com
      215·
      6 days ago

      The “estimated 20.000” figure comes directly from the Ukrainian government, and as I claimed, hasn’t been independently verified. The 1.200 by OHCHR is likely true as they claim are confirmed independently (thank you for your source), and while I thoroughly condemn it, I wouldn’t argue it amounts to genocide. Forcible removals of custody from children are something Roma people are forced to in Europe very regularly, and while a disgusting practice, I wouldn’t agree that it amounts to genocide.

      • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
        12·
        6 days ago

        At least four out of five criteria are documented. And while I think Russia/Ukraine and Isreal/Palestine are not comparable in a lot of aspects, what Russia is trying to achieve still does look like an attempt at genocide.

        The Genocide Convention recognizes five distinct genocidal acts:

        • killing members of the group,

        • causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,

        • deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,

        • imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and

        • forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

          • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
            4·
            6 days ago

            Are Putin and Palestine on the same side? Is Putins attack on Ukraine helping the suffering people of Gaza and the Westbank?

            I just said: ‘Putin attempts genocide in Ukraine.’ I didn’t call to allocate resources somewhere or ask to let Israel have it‘s way but stop Russia.

        • Riverside@reddthat.com
          214·
          6 days ago

          Russia is absolutely not deliberately inflicting group conditions calculated to bring their destruction. Compare civilian casualty rates in the US invasion of Iraq vs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. You are grasping at individual instances, not widespread practices.

            • Riverside@reddthat.com
              29·
              6 days ago

              Give me figures for civilian casualty rates and compare them to other modern conflicts like the Invasion of Iraq. You’re again talking from isolated incidents and not generalized practice.

              • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
                4·
                6 days ago

                What’s with the white washing russias genocide in Ukraine? Jesus fucking christ what’s wrong with you?

                • Riverside@reddthat.com
                  22·
                  6 days ago

                  “Everything is a genocide” is a form of genocide minimization against actual genocides, which is why the term should be strictly applied only to actual genocides.

                  You can condemn the invasion without engaging in fictitious claims of genocide.

                  From wikipedia:

                  “Political scientist Neta Crawford estimated 323,000 dead in the war by July 2025, with an average rate of 7,690 killed per month—surpassing the average of 2,826 killed per month in the Gaza war and 772 killed in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). According to Crawford, while civilians accounted for 80 percent of the fatalities in the Gaza war and 26 percent in the War in Afghanistan, only four percent of those killed in Ukraine were civilians.”