Amanda Knox vows to fight for the truth after Italian court convicts her again of slander

Amanda Knox fights back after guilty verdict for slander, citing police violation of human rights, claiming innocence in roommate's murder.

Amanda Knox expressed her surprise at the recent guilty verdict for slander by a Florence appeals court in an interview with Italian TV. Despite the ruling, Knox remains determined to fight for the truth, emphasizing that she has been unjustly accused for 17 years. The case dates back to 2007 when Knox, a 20-year-old exchange student in Perugia, and her then-boyfriend were accused of murdering her housemate, Meredith Kercher.

After a series of trials, Knox and her boyfriend were exonerated in 2015, but a slander conviction against Knox for falsely accusing an innocent man, the Congolese bar owner who employed her, remained. Knox spent four years in prison before being released on an earlier acquittal in 2011, which covered the three-year slander sentence. Rudy Hermann Guede, from Ivory Coast, was convicted of the slaying and served 13 years of a 16-year sentence.

During the recent trial in Florence, Knox was reconvicted of slandering Patrick Lumumba, who was initially held on suspicion of murder before being released with a solid alibi. The retrial was ordered by Italy's highest court following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that Knox's human rights were violated during a night of questioning without legal representation or a competent translator.

Knox maintains that she named Lumumba under duress and police pressure, describing the experience as abusive, mistreating, and psychologically torturous. She emphasized that the ordeal was worse than being convicted because it made her doubt herself and question her sanity. Despite the challenges, Knox remains steadfast in her pursuit of justice and truth.

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