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Militants who had their faces covered, brandishing smoking cans, shouted insults and punctuated a “declaration of war” to those journalists who criticized the movement The invasion which took place on the afternoon of 6 December 2017, in Rome, in the area in front of the building where the offices of the la Repubblica newspaper and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Emil Weber
The Montenegrin investigative journalist, Mr Tufik Softić, has recently been awarded 7,000 euros by the Constitutional Court of Montenegro for the moral harm caused by the authorities’ failure to effectively investigate two cases of serious attacks against him.
Tufik Softić. Photo by MLDI
Mr Softić was working for Radio Berane and the daily newspaper Republika when he was attacked near his home in November 2007. At the time, he had published an article dealing with the criminal activities of a drugs gang.
Then in August 2013 he was targeted by a car bomb attack.
The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), which…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Ossigeno’s review. Last news about attacks and violations of freedom of the press in Italy and other countries and about initiatives to tackle the issue Top News | Events Malta. Assault on Journalism Taking stock of pressures on journalists in the aftermath of the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia – The Ossigeno’s seminar at Malta
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Many problems were highlighted on the 6th December 2017 at the University of La Valletta. Among the speakers, Ricardo Gutierrez (EFJ) and the Maltese journalist Herman Grech In Malta, doing journalism which deals with news unappreciated by those in power is dangerous. Very dangerous. This was shown by the explosives attack on the 16th October
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In Turkey, whistleblowing and journalism based on it are being criminalised, as demonstrated by the cases of Reyhanlı and the trucks of MIT, the Turkish intelligence
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
The Order of Journalists will pay the legal defense for him. On Friday 15 December press conference in Florence with the presidents Carlo Verna and Carlo Bartoli Next Friday December 15th at 11 am in Florence (venue: headquarter of Ordine dei Giornalisti of Tuscany, vicolo de’ Malespini 1, close Palazzo Vecchio) there will be a
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The General Secretary Ricardo Gutiérrez after the workshop in Valletta: “It is urgent and essential to involve external and impartial investigators” From europeanjournalists.org – The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), together with the Italian NGO Ossigeno per l’Informazione, called on the Maltese authorities, on Wednesday December 6, to identify and prosecute the masterminds behind journalist Daphne
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Herman Grech, journalist of the online Times of Malta, referred to it at a seminar organised by Ossigeno at the University of Valletta Malta is a small country. Everybody knows everybody. And so I don’t accept that to explain what happened, it is said that certain journalists are dependent on Russia. Who says this doesn’t
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has on 5th December 2017 upheld the domestic conviction of two journalists in Denmark over their reporting on cancer treatment by the Copenhagen University Hospital and its consultant. They were convicted of defamation, which is a criminal offence in Denmark.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ms Mette Frisk as author and Mr Steen Jensen as responsible editor, in September 2008, published a prime time documentary in one of the national television networks entitled “When the doctor knows…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The FNSI and the Unitary Union of journalists from Campania report it. A relative of the victim gave him two blows to the face On November 15, 2017, in Naples, in the Ponticelli district, a photojournalist was hit with two shots to the face by a man, while he was filming a scene of a
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
