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Knox trial, politics in Sudan, Togo, Romania, bombings in Pakistan

by Tony Cross

Article published on the 2009-12-11 Latest update 2009-12-11 14:11 TU

Amanda Knox arrives in court in Perugia
(Photo: Reuters)

There is anger over the guilty verdict against US citizen Amanda Knox at her trial in Italy this week. Can elections be fair in Sudan, Togo and Romania? Has RFI got the full story on political violence in Pakistan?

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Some readers in the US are furious over the outcome of the trial of Amanda Knox, found guilty of murdering British student Meredeth Kircher in Italy.

"I hope perugia profitted well for a very sloppy unprofessional court trial that lasted 12 months and put 2 innocent people in prison just to gain publicity and plenty of money that poured into the city/country to watch this 12 month circus act," writes an anonymous correspondent. "The person that killed kercher was already convicted how did these 2 get attached with the sad way of justice in that country? SHOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW"

"Beware dont wake up the giant, the American people," warns Scott Walker of Seattle. "I hope Obama send Aspecial force team to get Amanda and do what ever it take to get her Italy and Iran better give are kids back or your going to wake the sleeping giant the people of the United states."

"Its imposible to run the upcoming elections under this conditions," writes Abdessalam Kitir from Cairo in response to our report of protesters arrested in Khartoum. "The people of sudan should continue struggling to extract thier rights and to keep thier country united, otherwise this Elbashir Islamic junta will Somalize the Sudan."

Still on electoral questions in Africa, Maurice Tampangou writes from Togo, a country which has had its differences with France this week.

"Why to the opposition insist on demanding a secound round [in the presidential election] instead of demanding a limit on presidential mandates?" he asks.

There were charges of electoral funny business in Europe, too, this week.

"The biggest theft in the post-revolution elections ever," is an anonymous contributor's judgement of the presidential poll in Romania. "Not even [Communist-turned-Social Democrat President] Iliescu and his cronies were able to steal as many votes as basescu and his team succeeded in stealing. It is absurd to believe that, in the midst of the worst econimic crisis ever, the Romanians voted to perpetuate the same leadership whose faults broght us here."

Finally, Samin Khan from Pakistan feels we didn't dig deep enough in our report of a suicide attack in the northern city of Peshawar.

"The article details what Pakistani media has already said using official sources as information," he writes. "As Pakistani journalist and TV person, I believe an investigative mode of how such incidents in the past revealed and who is doing what may also be added to the write-up."

News about RFI:

Rosslyn Hyams will be reporting from the Copenhagen conference from Sunday 13 December to its conclusion.

RFI will stop its radio broadcasts in German, Polish, Lao and Albanian on 19 December, as part of the cutbacks which led to a long industrial dispute this year. Programmes in German, Polish and Lao will still be posted on RFI's website "until the definitive end of broadcasts in these languages," a management statement says.

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