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Reporting on the European Youth Event 2016, European Youth Media Days 2016 from 19 to 21 May. Innovative, interactive and inspiring to promote dialogue, exchange, learning and networking in media.
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European Youth Press
Reporting on the European Youth Event 2016, European Youth Media Days 2016 from 19 to 21 May. Innovative, interactive and inspiring to promote dialogue, exchange, learning and networking in media.
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European Youth Press
Eleven intimidations this week in Italy Eleven. So many where in Italy within the week 8-14 February 2016 the victims of violations of freedom of expression through threats and abuses of Law and judicial proceeding which names Ossigeno added to the Public table of the names of victims that includs journalists, bloggers and operators intimidated. Since January 1, 2016
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Ossigeno Informazione » english
“Don’t come here anymore”, fans shouted to Nicola Agostini, while the reporter was covering the match between Villabiagio and Trestina. Condemnation from USSI and the Umbrian union The journalist Nicola Agostini was verbally assaulted by fans while maintaining the commentary of the amateur football match between Villabiagio and Trestina. The incident, described as “very serious”
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
It was established by the Court of Catania. The journalists of Meridionews had told of the unusual stop in the procession and were denounced by the association of fruit and vegetable vendors The Court of Catania filed, on February 12, 2016, the lawsuit for aggravated defamation against Dario De Luca and Luisa Santangelo, journalists for
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
They are Leonardo Palmisano and Yvan Sagnet who in January 2016 have received anonymous phone calls and have been tailed. On the affair, comments by SEL and M5S Leonardo Palmisano, writer and professor of sociology at the Polytechnic University of Bari, and Yvan Sagnet activist symbol of the fight against illegal hiring labor practices in
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
by Jane WhyattUnited Nations Geneva expert Alfred de Zayas is calling on the British and Swedish governments to let Wikileaks editor Julian Assange go free. Mr de Zayas has been campaigning on behalf of Assange since they met three years ago at the Ecuador embassy in London, where he is claiming diplomatic asylum.
He fears that if he leaves, the UK authorities will extradite him to Sweden where he is accused of a sexual assault. He denies the charges. De Zayas says there is also a strong risk that the United States would use "extraordinary renditon" (officially-sanctioned kidnapping) in order…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Dirk Voorhoof and Eva LievensIn an important test case the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that news website owners cannot be held responsible for comments posted by readers as long as they are lawful. Hate speech and inciting violence are illegal, insults and vulgar remarks are not.
The ECtHR recently decided that a self-regulatory body (Magyar Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete, MTE) and an Internet news portal (Index.hu Zrt) were not liable for the offensive comments posted by their readers on their respective websites. Anonymous users of MTE and Index.hu Zrt had posted vulgar and offensive online comments, following…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The party warned the reporter and the chief editor of Il Cittadino di Monza e Brianza of returning on the subject and promised lawsuits. UNCI intervenes In an email sent on February 11, 2016 to the email address of Paola Farina, columnist of the weekly Il Cittadino di Monza e Brianza, and of the chief
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The photographer at the centre of ECPMF’s fact-finding mission to Hungary has won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year Award. Richardson, an Australian journalist, was one of several media workers who were beaten and detained by Hungarian police at the Rozges border crossing between Serbia and Hungary in September 2015. His winning picture shows a baby being passed through the razor-wire fence at the border by refugees. ECPMF has interviewed all the journalists who were involved in the incident and made a complaint to the Hungarian police. The police have replied that it is difficult to tell…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
