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Media lynching for those who do not toe the government line, judicial authorities that do not protect citizens, independent journalists accused of conspiracy. This is Vučić's Serbia
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
By Emil Weber
A recent precedent of the The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) makes a distinction between journalists’ responsibility for defamation in claims made in published interviews and claims made in full journalism stories.
The offices of "Gazeta Wyborcza" in Wroclaw (photo: Jane Whyatt/ECPMF)
The court judgement concerning journalist Marcin Kącki’s interview in the context of a “sex-scandal” in Poland establishes stricter criteria for restricting freedom of speech in the cases of interviews in democratic societies.
Mr. Kącki published the interview with a political party activist in the daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza', in December 2006. At the time the party was represented…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
A recent precedent of the The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) makes a distinction between journalists’ responsibility for defamation in claims made in published interviews and claims made in full journalism stories.
The offices of "Gazeta Wyborcza" in Wroclaw (photo: Jane Whyatt/ECPMF)
The court judgement concerning journalist Marcin Kącki’s interview in the context of a “sex-scandal” in Poland establishes stricter criteria for restricting freedom of speech in the cases of interviews in democratic societies.
Mr. Kącki published the interview with a political party activist in the daily 'Gazeta Wyborcza', in December 2006. At the time the party was represented…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
By Emil Weber
A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment has backed a former prosecutor on his comments made in the press alleging corruption in the court system, based on the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He had been convicted and fined in his native Bulgaria, but now the government must pay him back the 7,565 euros, with costs.
Slavcho Krastev Karzhev, a former district head prosecutor in Sofia, was interviewed by the daily "Trud" in 2006 about a commission investigating his…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment has backed a former prosecutor on his comments made in the press alleging corruption in the court system, based on the right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. He had been convicted and fined in his native Bulgaria, but now the government must pay him back the 7,565 euros, with costs.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg
By Emil Weber
A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment has backed a former prosecutor on his comments made in the press alleging corruption in the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom in Leipzig (ECPMF) and with the support of the European Union Monitoring: 106 reports of probable threats, 29 believed to be credible In July 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione found 106 reports
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Press and Media Freedom in Leipzig (ECPMF) and with the support of the European Union Monitoring: 106 reports of probable threats, 29 believed to be credible In July 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione found 106 reports
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The trial resumes in Istanbul for the employees of daily Cumhuriyet, accused of terrorism. Defendants remain behind bars at the request of the prosecution. Our correspondent's account
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
This monthly review of acts of intimidation in Italy is produced by Ossigeno per l’Informazione for the European Center for Freedom of Information and Press in Leipzig (ECPMF), with the support of the European Union Attacks: 74 probable, 21 credible In June 2017, Ossigeno per l’Informazione took into account 74 reports of likely attacks on
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english – Ossigeno Informazione
By Henrik Kaufholz
2,294 journalists have been killed worldwide during the period 2000 – 2016, and the trend is increasing. That’s according to a whole new study from the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab at Vienna University, which is larger than in all previous overviews by non governmental organisations (NGOs) working with journalists.
Killed journalists
'We have all those deaths that have been publicly reported," says the leader of the study "Killings of Journalists Worldwide: The Full Costs of a Free Press", Professor Katharine Sarikakis, Vienna University. "We have conducted individual research on each of the 2,294 journalists, because it quickly…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
