maltatoday | SUNDAY • 16 FEBRUARY 2025
COMMENT
JOSANNE CASSAR JOSANNE CASSAR
Can Can we please we please
stop calling stop calling
criticism 'hate criticism 'hate
speech'? speech'?
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editorial PAGE 2 interview PAGES 6 - 7
Joseph Zammit
McKeon
A significant
sentence
The Ombudsman is the
institution, not the person. We
need this structure. It cannot
be that, for a person to seek out
their rights, they have to go to
court by force. Why shouldn't
there be a structure which
itself investigates breaches of
human rights?
Government exponents
use Labour MP Carmelo
Abela's case to buttress their
arguments in favour of higher
defamation penalties. They
are also using his case to
defend their proposal to stifle
the right of ordinary citizens to
request magisterial inquiries.
Mikiel Galea
JOSEF SAID JOSEF SAID
Prolong Prolonged ed
suffering and suffering and
the right the right
to die o die
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SAVIOUR BALZAN SAVIOUR BALZAN
Crunchi Crunching ng
numbers and numbers and
weighing options weighing options
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