Reporters arrested: Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is reeling again after British authorities arrested five more top reporters and editors. A total of nine employees of The Sun, Britain’s biggest newspaper, are now under arrest for alleged bribery of police and other public officials. More than a dozen other current and former employees of Murdoch’s News International group are also being investigated. Sun staffers said they felt betrayed by management, which gave police receipts, expense reports, messages, and other internal documents implicating them or their colleagues without conducting its own internal investigation. “It’s a very brutal way of treating senior journalists who may or may not have done anything wrong,” said Barry Fitzpatrick, head of the journalists’ union.
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Knox case back in court: Italian prosecutors filed an appeal this week in an attempt to reinstate the murder conviction of U.S. student Amanda Knox. Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend were found guilty of the 2007 slaying of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, and spent four years in prison. Last fall, an appeals court overturned the verdicts, saying they were unsupported by evidence. The high court can’t hear new evidence but will review the earlier proceedings and issue a ruling later this year. Should it overturn the acquittal, Knox would be tried in absentia in a second appeals court. If she were convicted again, Italy could seek her extradition. Knox’s family called the appeal “simply another example of harassment by the prosecution.”
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