Prisoners have a right to conjugal visits that cannot be refused on the basis of inadequate facilities, Italy's top court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Cassation last month ruled in favour of an anonymous 34-year-old prisoner who was denied private time with his wife on the basis that the structur
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An Italian court has convicted over 200 people for various crimes, including criminal association, extortion, and bribery in the country's largest mafia trial in 30 years. The trial took place in a high-security courtroom in Calabria, designed to accommodate a significant number of defendants, lawye
Equality for Children and the Lesbian Lawyers Network yesterday demonstrated outside the Italian Embassy in Dublin to protest the removal of rights from lesbian mothers in Italy.
Lawyers have been urged to join a Dublin demonstration against an Italian crackdown on lesbian mothers' right to be named on their children's birth certificates. Italy's far-right government has ordered local authorities to cease recording the names of "non-biological" parents on birth certificates