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The Coordination Centre is a measure that has long been invoked by Ossigeno. Therefore the Observatory thanks FNSI, OdG and the Minister of the Interior “The creation of a Coordination centre for the protection of press freedom by the Ministry of the Interior is a big step forward in a country where every year remain
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Andrea Marcenaro, Riccardo Arena and Giorgio Mulé were sentenced in the first-degree to custodial sentences following charges from former Prosecutor of Palermo Mr Messineo The Fifth Section of the Court of Appeal of Milan on October 23, 2017 has deemed not guilty the three journalists of Panorama (the chief editor Giorgio Mulè, Riccardo Arena and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Jane Whyatt, research by Mira Swaminathan
New tributes continue for journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, one month after she was assassinated in a car bomb. And the corruption allegations she was investigating are now the subject of an official European Parliament resolution, following a debate on the Rule of Law in Malta.
Photo: European Parliament press room
In Strasbourg the press room of the European Parliament has being re-named in her honour at a ceremony led by EP President Antonio Tajani. Her widower Peter Caruana Galizia told the press corps: “Daphne never grew cynical, she grew angrier, more outraged by the increasing…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Maurizio Bolognetti (Radio Radicale) was gathering some footage from his car and on a public road. He wanted to monitor an oil leak On September 27, 2017, journalist Maurizio Bolognetti, a collaborator of Radio Radicale, was prevented by a private guard to shoot video in the district of Valloni a Viggiano (in the province of
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Bianet
The third hearing of the media trial in connection with the July 15 2016 coup attempt with 17 defendants including Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak was held at İstanbul 26th Heavy Penal Court in Çağlayan on November 13.
Photo: bianet. Human rights defenders observed the trial
Among the international observers of the trial, pictured above: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) President Pierre Haski, RSF Representative to Turkey Erol Önderoğlu, Georgia Nash from Article 19, PEN International Advocacy Director Sarah Clarke, Eugene Schoulgin from the PEN, Amnesty International and diplomats from Switzerland, France, Belgium, Czech Republic and Norway.
Ahmet Altan…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
A man called in the night the mobile phone number of journalist Vincenzo Rubano, who produces reports with Vittorio Brumotti for the satirical news program. Pressed charges The journalist Vincenzo Rubano – a contributor to the newspapers La Repubblica and La Città di Salerno as well as of the satirical news program aired on Canale
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Death threats against exiled Ukrainian reporter
By Jane Whyatt and Hamburg Foundation
Even in exile, with the support of the media freedom community, some critical independent journalists cannot rest easy. Aleksei Bobrovnikov fled Ukraine to escape death threats. But they have followed him on Facebook.
Facebook threats
Bobrovnikov gave testimony at the annual conference of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. He spoke of his struggle to expose smuggling and gun-running in the war zone of Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine. He showed footage and photos of whistleblowers he had interviewed, who were killed a short time after their meetings.
Under extreme pressure – not only…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 4th October 2017 that the right to protection of sources cannot exempt journalists from their obligation to verify information of factual nature. An Icelandic journalist, reporting in the context of 2008 financial crisis, was sanctioned for defamation after failing to prove some factual basis of his reporting despite his reference to the right of protection of sources.
Adrian Grycuk Courtroom European Court of Human Rights 05 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en
Working for the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RUV), Mr. Svavar Halldórsson reported in three occasions during 2010 about an alleged loan transaction of around…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The second edition of the Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon will take place in Sofia on November 27th to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom and pluralism in the largest open enciclopedia worldwide
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Declared the “insufficiency to proceed” for the trials against the reporters of Il Tempo, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Report. In the same proceedings, also involved Salvatore Buzzi The Judge for the Preliminary Investigation of the Court of Rome on 26 September 2017 ordered the “insufficiency to proceed” for the trial against reporters Antonio Padellaro and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
