https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Amanda Knox told an Italian legal forum Saturday she feared "harassment" and "new accusations" four years after she was acquitted of the gruesome killing of her British housemate. https://www.thelocal.it/20190615/amanda-knox-fears-new-accusations-after-italy-return Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:52:05 +0200 amanda-knox-fears-new-accusations-after-italy-return Acquitted former convict Amanda Knox is back in Italy for the first time since being released from prison to speak on a panel about wrongful conviction. https://www.thelocal.it/20190614/amanda-knox-back-in-italy-as-an-advocate-for-the-wrongfully-convicted Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:09:54 +0200 amanda-knox-back-in-italy-as-an-advocate-for-the-wrongfully-convicted Amanda Knox is back in Italy for the first time since being released from prison in 2011, following her acquittal over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190613/amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:50:03 +0200 amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Amanda Knox has announced she will return to Italy next month for the first time since being cleared in 2015 of killing her former flatmate Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190508/amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Wed, 08 May 2019 13:34:59 +0200 amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Europe's top rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay thousands of euros in damages to Amanda Knox, the American student acquitted in 2015 of the gruesome killing of her British housemate after spending years behind bars. https://www.thelocal.it/20190124/italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:31:26 +0100 italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr An Italian court on Tuesday blocked a reopening of the Amanda Knox murder saga by refusing to review the conviction of the man jailed for the grisly 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20170110/meredith-kercher-murder-case-italy-blocks-new-review Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:51:05 +0100 meredith-kercher-murder-case-italy-blocks-new-review Streaming site Netflix is set to launch a new documentary on Amanda Knox, who was twice convicted and then acquitted of killing her roommate in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20160927/netflix-launches-illuminating-amanda-knox-documentary Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:49:07 +0200 netflix-launches-illuminating-amanda-knox-documentary Rudy Guede, the man who was found guilty of British student Meredith Kercher’s murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison, has called for his case to be reviewed after Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared of the killing at the end of March. https://www.thelocal.it/20150408/kerchers-convicted-murderer-wants-case-to-be-reviewed Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:22:41 +0200 kerchers-convicted-murderer-wants-case-to-be-reviewed UPDATED: Judges at Italy's top court worked into the evening on Friday mulling whether to uphold the murder conviction of Amanda Knox in what could be the final act of an eight-year legal drama. https://www.thelocal.it/20150327/knoxs-fate-in-hands-of-italys-top-court Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:49:51 +0100 knoxs-fate-in-hands-of-italys-top-court UPDATED: Italy's top court has put back a ruling on Amanda Knox's murder conviction to Friday, delaying what could be the final act of an eight-year legal drama that has captivated a global audience. https://www.thelocal.it/20150325/italy-ruling-on-knox-conviction-delayed-to-friday Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:23:19 +0100 italy-ruling-on-knox-conviction-delayed-to-friday Italy's top court is Wednesday considering whether to uphold the convictions of American Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. The Local brings you the key dates in the case. https://www.thelocal.it/20150325/timeline-kercher-murder-case-reaches-high-court Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:38:51 +0100 timeline-kercher-murder-case-reaches-high-court The murder trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito will reach Italy’s highest court in March 2015, more than a year after they were found guilty of killing British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20141001/italys-high-court-to-hear-kercher-murder-case-in-march Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:32:00 +0200 italys-high-court-to-hear-kercher-murder-case-in-march Raffaele Sollecito, who in January was reconvicted alongside Amanda Knox of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, graduated on Tuesday after producing a thesis on the case as part of his degree. https://www.thelocal.it/20140716/sollecito-studied-kercher-murder-case-for-thesis Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:01:00 +0200 sollecito-studied-kercher-murder-case-for-thesis American Amanda Knox said on Thursday that she was innocent of murdering her British housemate Meredith Kercher, claiming that the pair had "never fought" and were "becoming friends" in the weeks leading up to the student's murder. https://www.thelocal.it/20140502/i-never-fought-with-kercher-knox Fri, 02 May 2014 13:16:00 +0200 i-never-fought-with-kercher-knox Amanda Knox and her Italian lover slayed British student Meredith Kercher after an argument spiralled out of control, an Italian court said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140430/kercher-was-not-killed-in-sex-game-judges Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:30:00 +0200 kercher-was-not-killed-in-sex-game-judges Raffaele Sollecito, convicted in January alongside Amanda Knox of killing British student Meredith Kercher, has taken his girlfriend to the Perugia house where the murder took place, according to Italian media reports on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140418/sollecito-takes-girlfriend-to-kercher-murder-house Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:18:00 +0200 sollecito-takes-girlfriend-to-kercher-murder-house The imprisonment and trials of Amanda Knox, found guilty of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, still discourages fellow American students from studying in the country, a new survey has found. https://www.thelocal.it/20140411/knox-trial-puts-fear-into-american-students Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:12:00 +0200 knox-trial-puts-fear-into-american-students A recording of Amanda Knox being interrogated over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been released, in which she says she blamed someone else for the crime because she was "stressed". https://www.thelocal.it/20140217/stressed-knox-interrogation-tape-released Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:08:00 +0100 stressed-knox-interrogation-tape-released Amanda Knox, found guilty for the second time in January of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, has taken to the social media website Twitter to declare her innocence. https://www.thelocal.it/20140212/knox-faces-backlash-for-twitter-innocent-selfie Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:00:00 +0100 knox-faces-backlash-for-twitter-innocent-selfie The sister of murdered British student Meredith Kercher said it would be “difficult to meet Amanda Knox after everything that has happened”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140131/it-would-be-difficult-to-meet-knox-after-everything Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:52:00 +0100 it-would-be-difficult-to-meet-knox-after-everything