Blogger to file breach of rights case over memorial

Activist and blogger Manuel Delia will this week file a constitutional case against the government over what he says is a breach of his fundamental right to free ex­pression, after the memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia at the Great Siege monument in Valletta was dismantled 17 times. “Activists like me did not start the memorial,” Mr Delia told The Sunday Times of Malta. “Nor did we guard it or make it our own.” The exception was last week when activists had con­firmation that the people removing the protest site were government employees acting on instructions from their political masters, he said. “We wanted to make sure it stayed in place for our vigil last Sunday.” Mr Delia said the government tried, for 17 times, to get away with removing the protest it was so offended by, without admitting it was doing so itself. “They hid their actions by acting in the dead of night. Last week, out of hubris, they made the mistake of having the protest wiped out in broad daylight. A journalist happened to be passing by and when he challenged the workers there, they told him they were acting on the Justice Ministry’s instruction. That’s after one of them assaulted him,” he said. Read:...