Journalists, a lawyer, and parents indicted in Amanda Knox case.

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Somebody in Perugia wants this case hushed up.

Italy has little in the way of free speech protection, if they can indict journalists for libel -- a criminal charge that carries prison time -- in a case like this.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/16/italy.knox.parents/

Mellas and her ex-husband, Curt Knox, were indicted Tuesday on charges of libeling police in Perugia, she and the family's Italian attorney said.

In a 2009 interview in the Sunday Times of London, they said that their daughter "had not been given an interpreter, had not received food and water, and had been physically and verbally abused" by police after her arrest for the murder of the exchange student, according to Italy's ANSA news agency.

They also said police struck her and told her "things will get worse for you" if she requested an attorney.

"Yes, I am going to trial for libel ... along with one of my lawyers and a group of journalists," Mellas told CNN Tuesday.

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