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by ECPMF staff
Russian journalist and anti-corruption activist Dmitry Popkov was reportedly found dead close to his home in the Siberian town of Minusinsk on the night of 24 May.
The 42-year-old was shot dead by an unidentified perpetrator, according to Russian and international media reports quoting the Investigative Committee in the Krasnoyarsk region.
Says ECPMF Managing Director Lutz Kinkel:
Russia is a perilous place for journalists doing their job. Popkov is already the second journalist being killed this year. The Russian government must not only thoroughly investigate these murders, it must take decisive action to protect journalists in the country."
Popkov was editor-in-chief…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Entrepreneurship School Belgium will take place on the 10th- 14th July 2017 in Brussels and will provide participants with a unique opportunity to widen their business horizon and develop their entrepreneurial ideas. During the 5-days School young people from all around the world will have the opportunity to meet and challenge the most […]
The post Call for participants for Entrepreneurship School in Brussels appeared first on European Youth Press.
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European Youth Press
UNLEASH is the largest gathering of young talent in the world. A festival and conference fusion with talks, shows and plenty of networking to applaud all the talent of this young generation. A three-day event that will begin the coming 20th of September in Circo Price, Madrid, with over 500 young people under 26 […]
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European Youth Press
The WAVES Summit is an event organized together with MIT. An international show about how the Digital Era is changing the paradigm of every single sector, like energy, finance, consuming goods, etc. High directives from some of the most influencial companies in Europe are invited to be witness to a real transformation. Young global leaders will […]
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European Youth Press
by ECPMF staff
Freelancers who daily risk their lives to cover conflict will tell their stories in the ECPMF tent at the Byline Festival, the UK's first-ever festival of independent journalism.
Photographer Osie Greenway (left) and writer Igor Kossov (right), both part of The War Zone freelance Project, cover an offensive by the Iraqi Federal Police pushing further into west Mosul's city center to retake the rest of the city fro Islamic State militants control in March 2017. (Photo: Anne Alling)
Danish journalist Anne Alling is one of the founders of the War Zone Freelance Project (WZF), which aims to get better…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
An interview with Rodoljub Šabić, Commissioner for information of public interest and the protection of personal data – together with the Ombudsman, among the most mistreated institutions in Serbia
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Antonio Sbraga had asked Nicola Zingaretti for explanations on the dismantling of intensive care beds at the Subiaco hospital On May 17, 2017, the President of the Lazio Region, Nicola Zingaretti, on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the new premises of the Subiaco Hospital’s Department of Surgery, answered with insults to journalist Antonio
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
They are Antonio Loconte of Quotidianoitaliano.com, Francesca Musacchio and a photographer of Il Tempo, and Davide Speranza of the newspaper La Città BARI – “I know where you live and I know some people there”: with these words, on 20 April 2017, near the Di Venere hospital in Bari, an abusive parking valet threatened the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) strongly condemns the abduction of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli from his Tbilisi, Georgia exile on 29 May 2017. Mukhtarli, a long-time critic of the Azerbaijani government, is currently detained in that country’s capital, Baku, according to his lawyer Elchin Sadiqov.
While we demand his immediate release from Azerbaijani detention, Mukhtarli‘s abduction is just the latest example of the Georgian government‘s inability or unwillingness to protect Azerbaijani journalists who have sought refuge in Georgia“,
ECPMF chair Henrik Kaufholz says. „Time after time in recent months, Azerbaijani journalists in Georgia have been harrassed by…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
In Veneto a reporter was put to the door by the Public Attorney. In the capital, two Gazebo envoys (RAI3) excluded from a press conference In Vicenza, on April 13, 2017, the Public Attorney of the Republic Antonino Cappelleri, during a meeting in his office with some reporters, asked the journalist, Matteo Bernardini of the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
