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Deniz Yücel and Asli Erdoğan will be awarded the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig’s “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media” 2017
"Die Welt" newspaper takes Turkey to court over jailed journalist
Erdoğan: Yücel extradition denied indefinitely, while referendum for more power passes…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Jessica Jacques
Anna Kurbatova, a reporter for Russia’s Channel 1 news who was working in Ukraine, was detained and quickly deported to Russia by the Ukranian Security Service (SBU). She is accused of anti-Ukrainian propaganda and a ‘smear campaign’ against the country.
Russian journalist Anna Kurbatova, who was deported and banned from entering Ukraine (photo: Screenshot from Youtube)
SBU spokesperson, Olena Gitlyanska wrote on Facebook, “Russian propagandist Anna Kurbatova will be forcibly returned to Russia. Ukraine is a law-governed state, and its law enforcement bodies act exclusively in line with the current legislation. The necessary documents are currently being drafted for her…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Turkey regularly blocks non-heterosexual websites, the UK bans online pornographic content considered as ‘obscene’ and Facebook has a problem with female nipples. The regulation of sexual content – or content that is deemed to be of sexual nature – is a regular feature of internet governance and self-regulation of platforms and apps. In this post Lukasz Szulc, LSE Marie Curie […]
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Media Policy Project
It was a very hot August, in every way. Italy went on vacation, suspending many activities. Anyway, as usual, people who attack journalists and bloggers did not go on vacation. Although in these weeks Ossigeno slow down the work pace, it took note of all episodes. We tell now some serious events. Other equally serious ones
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It was a very hot August, in every way. Italy went on vacation, suspending many activities. Anyway, as usual, people who attack journalists and bloggers did not go on vacation. Although in these weeks Ossigeno slow down the work pace, it took note of all episodes. We tell now some serious events. Other equally serious ones
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Turkish-Swedish writer Hamza Yalçın is still in jail in Spain waiting for his case to be heard. He is due to be extradited to Turkey where he will face trial on "terrorism" charges" and “insulting President Erdoğan“. But he has won important political backing.
Hamza Yalçın is held in Can Brians Prison close to Barcelona in Spain
Given journalists and writers with Turkish roots being detained in Spain because the Erdoğan administration issued a warrant with Interpol, David McAllister, MEP at the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee told ECPMF: “Without a free press there is no freedom – the free press is…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt
A man has physically attacked and insulted two journalists at Slavonski Brod in Croatia, where they were reporting on a shooting that had left one person seriously injured. Visnja Ruzojcic from the public service broadcaster HRT and local news portal SB Plus reporter Aleksandra Primorac were beaten and insulted, and the man also tried to grab Ruzojcic’s camera. Immediately the reporters alerted the police and they responded promptly.
HRT is Croatia's public service broadcaster. Photo; Jane Whyatt
logo of the AJM journalists' union
Meanwhile in the Macedonian capital Skopje, a camera crew from Nova TV has been assaulted whilst covering a local…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Hungary has been experiencing significant constitutional and institutional changes in the last seven years as Viktor Orban and his ruling party Fidesz cemented their political power by capturing the constitutional court and other key institutions. In parallel to the political capture of democratic institutions, media ownership became more and more concentrated in the hands of Orban and his close allies. […]
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Media Policy Project
To denounce the journalist and the writer was the president of the association Cittadini Contro Le Mafie e La Corruzione (Citizens against Mafias and Corruption) for a post on Facebook There has been no defamation, but legitimate right to criticism, without falling into contempt of the people involved in the post posted on Facebook by
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
To denounce the journalist and the writer was the president of the association Cittadini Contro Le Mafie e La Corruzione (Citizens against Mafias and Corruption) for a post on Facebook There has been no defamation, but legitimate right to criticism, without falling into contempt of the people involved in the post posted on Facebook by
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
