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by Jane Whyatt
TV reporter Anne Dittert has been subjected to hate speech from senior Polish figures, including a vice president of the European Parliament, Ryszard Czarnecki, after making a documentary about the ruling PiS (Law and Justice) party and its attitude to criticism.
ADittert, Annette Dittert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ms Dittert accompanied the Liberal MEP Roza von Thun on an exploration of the way the ruling party confronts criticism. They filmed street demonstrations and protests against the controversial reform of the justice system. To balance her report she also interviewed the editor of the pro-PiS newspaper Gazeta Polska.
Yet the screening of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has ruled that the journalists Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan were detained in violation of their rights. However, penal courts stalled the decision. International media freedom campaigners are urging the lower courts to respect the ruling and set the journalists free.
By Jane Whyatt
Turkey’s prime minister said on Friday the case would be decided by a local court. “Whether we like the Constitutional Court’s ruling or not, the authority that will make the right call is the first instance court,” Binali Yildirim told reporters. Earlier on Friday Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said the court had "overstepped its limit".…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Many episodes certified by the Observatory, which specifies: it is only 6% of the total. The names, the types of attack, the percentages. The alarm on Lazio In 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione reported serious violations of freedom of information which happened in Italy through intimidation, threats, retaliation and abuses against 423 journalists, bloggers, photojournalists and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Vittorio Brumotti and his crew were attacked in Rome, Padua, Milan and Bologna, between October 31st and December 2nd. After his services arrested some pushers The correspondent of the TV show Striscia la Notizia, Vittorio Brumotti, and the three operators of his troupe were attacked five times in the course of a month while they
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Giacinto Mariani had cited Fabrizio Gatti and the newspaper for an article on the infiltration of the Casalesi clan in the in Brianza province. In the first degree he had won Four years after the events, on November 15, 2017 the Court of Appeal of Milan (sentence 5022/2017) rejected the claim for damages brought by
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
He had defined as “trash” a report on child laborers in his country. Then he admitted he had spoken without having seen them, but did not apologize The head of the Albanian government, Edi Rama, reacted to a television report of the TV show Le Iene on the exploitation of child labor in his country,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Adriana Musella, president of the “Riferimenti” antimafia association, falsely accused Alessia Candito (Corriere della Calabria) of having stolen data from her computer The Public Prosecutor of the Court of Reggio Calabria, Massimo Baraldo, has requested to try Adriana Musella, president of the anti-mafia association “Riferimenti”, for calumny, following the trial for slander against the journalist
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Genoa Police Headquarters communicated it. The fan for two years can not enter the stadium. On September 30 he had punched the journalist outright The Police Headquarters of Genoa announced, with a statement published on 16 November 2017 on the site of the State Police, a provision of DASPO (Ban on access to sporting
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The inquiry into waste management in Salento was published in Il Tacco d’Italia in March. Also obscured the related posts on the Facebook page On September 19, 2017 the magistrate of the Court of Lecce, Giovanni Gallo – at the request of the PM – ordered the preventive seizure of two articles by journalist Marilù
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Alessandro Mano was insulted and accused of lack of professionalism by members of the group “Sei di Aosta se”. Solidarity from OdG and Assostampa On 19 December 2017 the journalist Alessandro Mano, collaborator of the newspaper La Stampa, was invested on Facebook by insults and accusations of lack of professionalism for reporting in his newspaper
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
