(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 24 - The ruling rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Friday denied reports it had filed a bill to repeal torture as a crime saying it simply wanted to better clarify the offence so as to safeguard police and prison officers accused of it.
    "We want to avert that fanciful charges end up with sensational acquittals," said FdI House Whip Tommaso Foti.
    He said Premier Giorgia Meloni's party "has not desire to abrogate the crime of torture, but to characterize it in a much clearer way, as it is in international conventions".
    Leftwing Senator Ilaria Cucchi, sister of a Rome surveyor who died of police brutality, earlier appealed to President Sergio Mattarella not to allow the alleged bill otno the books saying she and other campaigners had fought hard to have torture recognized as a separate crime. (ANSA).