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by Michelle TrimbornThe media freedom community gave a sigh of relief when the message was spread: Azeri journalist Khadija Ismayilova was released from prison. However, this is not yet a victory as the charges are upheld.
After 538 days in prison, investigative journalist Kahdija Imayilova was freed following a decision by Azerbaijan’s supreme court on Wednesday. The original sentence of seven and a half years in prison for charges including libel and tax evasion, embezzlement and of power, announced in September 2015, was changed to a three and a half year prison term on probation as the charges of abuse…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
About the draft bill that tightens criminal penalties in the penal code in favour of political class, the judiciary or public administration About the draft bill under way at the Italian Senate to tighten criminal penalties for defamation an alert was inserted, on May 27, 2016, on the Platform for the Protection of Journalism and
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
In this longer read, Lorna Woods, Professor of Media Law at the University of Essex, explains the main changes and key features of the European Commission’s proposal for a new Audiovisual Media Service Directive. After a draft was leaked last week, the Commission’s proposal to revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is now out. Once again we see the Commission […]
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Media Policy Project
Following a special workshop convened by the Media Policy Project on ‘Automation, Prediction and Digital Inequalities’, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Acting Director of the LSE Media Policy Project, connects current concerns about automated, predictive technologies with the goals of digital inclusion, arguing that broadband adoption policies and programmes need to better prepare members of marginalised communities for a new era of […]
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Media Policy Project
Once the bastion of the left-wing press, Novi List this last year made an abrupt turnabout in its editorial orientation, with the dismissal and downgrading of its most well-known columnists
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Senate should consider the negative effect of the draft bill on free expression, Dunja Mijatović, OSCE media representative says VIENNA, 26 May 2016 – The Italian Senate should consider pending legislation that would increase the maximum penalty to 9 years in jail for criminally defaming elected officials and judges in light of its effect on
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Interview with Evgen Schibalov, a Ukrainian journalist formerly based in Donetsk by Kira KirschbachOver the past two years the pro Russian insurgents in the self-styled People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine have created an infrastructure that operates in isolation from the rest of Ukraine.
Front running Urkaine 26 Mai 2016 (Map: www.mil.gov.ua)
The newly-created media landscape plays a special role in this. When war broke out, Ukrainian media were forced to leave Donetsk. Their buildings were over-run with unknown armed men. Their transmitters in the rebel-held areas no longer worked. In their place new media sprang up. In…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Along with the former chief editor De Bortoli in 2012, she was accused of defamation by former police chief Nicola Izzo for an article about allegations of criminal activities within the Interior Ministry MILAN, May 24, 2016 – Acquitted by the Court of Milan for having acted in the belief to exercise freedom of the
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The Supreme Court confirmed the inadmissibility of the complaint lodged by the public company The President of the Fifth Criminal Division of the Supreme Court, Maurizio Fumo, rejected the opposition to the filing of a libel suit, filed in November 2008, by Sergio Giovannelli, responsible for the technical secretariat of ATO4 (i.e. the body that
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Interview with Vesselin Dimitrov in Sofia, BulgariaGangs of masked young men in camouflage gear, equipped with knives and sticks, are patrolling the frontier in dense forests between Turkey and Bulgaria. They are hunting for refugees, as they have done for months, but now they are less likely to boast about it.
Bulgaria’s refugee hunters at the Bulgarian border (Photo: ECPMF/Vesselin Dimitrov)
TV coverage, newspaper headlines and videos posted on Facebook and YouTube show typical scenes: a group of young Afghan men being forced to lie face down on the ground. Their hands are bound with cable-ties, "Go back to Turkey" shouts…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
