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The Landgericht Hamburg, Germany, a court of first instance, held that there was no violation of the personality rights of a right-wing politician who was called a "Nazi slut" during a satirical television show. In its decision, the Landgericht Hamburg recognised that the statement amounted to a form of political satire. It went on to acknowledge that a viewer would not interpret the term "Nazi slut" literally and would, instead, recognize it as an exaggeration typical of satire. The Landgericht Hamburg denied the politician's claim and ordered that she bear the legal costs of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Protection and the issue of impunity. Organized by UNESCO and OHCHR in Palais des Nations gather many stakeholders between which Ossigeno A “Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on Strengthening the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity”, organized by UNESCO and OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Safety of Journalist. Consultation in Geneve on the UN Plan of Action Protection and the issue of impunity. Organized by UNESCO and OHCHR at Palais des Nations gather many stakeholders between which Ossigeno European Feast of Music in Rome. The Ossigeno’s Concert for Press Freedom Read below telegrams sent to promoters of the June 21st
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
“For my daughter, Graziella, barbarously killed when still in her prime, with the consent of those who are still being considered civil” Renata De Palo (mother of the journalist Graziella De Palo, who disappeared in Beirut in 1980 along with her colleague Italo Toni) sent this telegram to Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the “Concert for
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
I’ve always fought, but the result is naught, as the last sentence says: a real judicial earthquake of which few have taken notice Luciana Alpi, mother of Roman journalist Ilaria Alpi, reporter for the TG3 who was killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 20, 1994, along with the filmmaker Milan Hrovatin and an armed commando,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Message to the Concert on Press Freedom organized in Rome by “Ossigeno per l’Informazione” together with the Scoop Jazz Band The Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, sent the following message to the Director of Ossigeno per l’Informazione at the Concert for Press Freedom and the Right to Be Informed on 21 June
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The chairman of the Archivio Audiovisivo M.O. emphasizes the risk of a crackdown on rights that is carried on by violence and abuse against journalists Senator Vincenzo Vita, president of the AAMO Foundation, sent this telegram to “Ossigeno per l’Informazione” at the Concert for Press Freedom and the right to be informed on June 21,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Envy and individual protagonists are the worst enemies of quality information. Let us start over from local information, from the suburbs GIOVANNI TIZIAN, a journalist, and writer for the weekly L’Espresso, born in Calabria, is the son of a bank official assassinated by the ‘Ndrangheta. That murder happened when he was a child and then
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It is necessary to put in the bill delegitimation, spurious claims, threats, aggressions and other pressures implemented to force to bend the back of who resists The Roman journalist Federica Angeli, reporter of the newspaper La Repubblica, lives under police protection since 2013, because she was threatened with death for having conducted a journalistic inquiry
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The telling of facts is hijacked by a new ruling class that tries to control the press and does not tolerate the counterweights of democracy Journalist Lirio Abbate, Editor-in-Chief of the weekly L’Espresso, a journalist who has been threatened with death several times by the mafia because of his courageous investigations in Sicily, Calabria, and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
