The reaction to the 8–1 acquittal of Yorgen Fenech exposes a worrying attitude towards Malta’s justice system.   A jury is not there to give civil society the verdict it demands. It is certainly not there to satisfy activists, commentators, campaigners or sections of the media that have already decided what the verdict should be. […]

Se jkun hemm l-ghaqdiet estremisti ovvji tas-soltu li se jattakkawni bla hniena.   Se jkun hemm l-akkolti tas-soltu fil-media li taparsi jitkazaw.   Se jkun hemm min jghidli “hallihom qed jaghmlu apposta biex jintimidaw”   Se jkun hemm min jghidli “u tatix kashom apposta qed jaghmlu”   Jaghmlu li jridu ghax jien se nibqa nitkellem […]

For weeks, his name was spoken in a Valletta courtroom by men with every reason to lie. Now that the trial is over, we can ask the questions that we were never able to ask from outside that room.   If Dr. Chris Cardona was truly implicated in this case, and if there was ever […]