Malta warned of corruption crisis following Daphne Caruana Galizia verdict sends ‘chill down the spine

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Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk Europe live – latest updates Malta is vulnerable to “repeated instances of high-level corruption” unless it strengthens the rule of law and protections for journalists, the Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti stated at the opening of an inquiry into judicial failures following the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The report also notes that Chakrabarti, a member of the House of Lords and former director of the human rights group Liberty, has been named special rapporteur for a Council of Europe investigation into the fallout from the assassination of the anti-corruption journalist, who died in a car bombing in October 2017.

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