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In an interim ruling, the court ordered the release pending trial of Ömer Çelik. The former news editor of the closed pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA) had been in pretrial detention since December 2016 with two other colleagues, Tunca Öğreten, a former editor and investigative reporter of news portal Diken, and Mahir Kanaat, an employee of leftist newspaper BirGün.
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Pinuccio Brenzini, collaborator of TeleNord and RadioNostalgia, was punched. Charges pressed. “Condemnation” from the OdG of Liguria On 30 September 2017, before the start of the Serie A soccer match between Genoa and Bologna, the journalist Pinuccio Brenzini, a collaborator of TeleNord and RadioNostalgia – official radio of the Genoa football club – in the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Justice of the Peace of the Court issued a judgment on 19 September 2017 against Leonardo Giombini. He had been denounced by the journalist Enzo Beretta (La Nazione – Umbria)In June of 2014, the entrepreneur Leonardo Giombini telephoned the newsroom of the Umbrian daily La Nazione and insulted the reporter Enzo Beretta, protesting with
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 24th October backed the domestic Turkish court for ordering a newspaper in Sinop to publish a reaction from the local journalists’ association.
The ECtHR ruled that there was no violation of the right to freedom of expression.
According to the court’s Second Section, the right to reply is a guarantee of pluralism of information in democratic societies.
Mr. Mustafa Eker was the publisher of the newspaper Bizim Karadeniz in the small Turkish city of Sinop when he, in February 2005, published an editorial criticising the Sinop Association of Journalists for working “in contradiction…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The president of the National Order of Journalists stated so in a message to the conference on unpunished attacks. Solidarity with family members of killed reporters“End Impunity. Stop impunity for crimes against journalists” is not just the cornerstone issue of the UN World Day, which is celebrated in Italy on October 23rd by Ossigeno per
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
So the President of the Senate Pietro Grasso has intervened at the Ossigeno and ASR Conference. “The international character of the event reflects the problem’s dimension” “The biggest threat to a journalist is the loneliness that surrounds those threatened”: so said the Senate President Pietro Grasso, opening the proceedings of the conference “Journalists threatened, guilty
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It is also necessary for Italy. To pass the norms that have been in waiting for years for discouraging claims and spurious libel lawsuits This message was sent by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, to Ossigeno per l’Informazione on 23 October 2017 at the Senate conference “Journalists threatened, guilty unpunished” The
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The first thesis deals with the intellectual activity of Giuseppe Fava (University of Anversa) while the second one compares the Italian legislation to Turkey (University of Trento) Doctor Sarah Vantorre wins the second edition, held once a year, of Ossigeno-Mario Paolo Grego Prize created by Ossigeno per l’Informazione in cooperation with Professor Cristina Cappello, widow
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The second of a series of three thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom through a curated aggregation of contents
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Following the assassination of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the ECPMF and Transparency International EU, along with other media freedom groups, call on the European Union to create a special prize in her name to promote and support independent investigative journalism around Europe.
Daphne Caruana Galizia (copyright: daphnecaruanagalizia.com)
Brussels, 24 October 2017
To Members of the European Parliament,
Re: Daphne Caruana Galizia: death of an investigative journalist in Malta
As representatives of Europe’s journalistic, media freedom and anti-corruption communities, we call for the European Parliament to establish a Journalism Prize in the name of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
She was assassinated whilst investigating complex allegations of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
