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On the 27th October on the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity Ossigeno presented to the Press Club its e-book dossier, “Shut up or I’ll sue!” Maria Laura Franciosi – Brussels – Each year in Italy over 5000 individuals who want to silence journalists who report unappreciated news achieve their goal by presenting lawsuits for unsubstantiated
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has added her weight to the protests from ECPMF and other media freedom organisations about the latest arrests in Turkey. A coalition of fourteen independent organisations has signed a letter to the Turkish authorities demanding a meeting to urgently discuss the arrests of editors and journalists from the national newspaper Cumhuriyet.
(photo: Hüseyin Aldemir)
The journalists can be sure of our solidarity“
said Mrs Merkel.
Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet’s former Editor-in-Chief takes part in solidarity action to free Turkey journalists (photo: ECPMF/Lamm)
She was responding to criticism from Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet’s former Editor-in-Chief.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by ECPMF staff
The European continent is still subdivided into two parts, due to the legacy from recent history. Experiences in some Eastern European countries today remind us of the pressing problems regarding Public Service Media (PSM) amid a transformation not yet completed.
Reforms have been required of East European countries to join or approach the European Union, but many remain just on paper, and Public Service Media is still very much of a political instrument even in the transition from socialism. (Photo: public domain)
The transition from a political monolith into pluralism keeps being obstructed and returning…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
On the initiative of the Brussels Press Club, AEJ and Ossigeno. The UN Resolutions. The solidarity of colleagues. What deterrent to adopt Maria Laura Franciosi – Brussels – From the conference “The geography of violence perpetrated against journalists” held on the 27th October in Brussels, on the occasion of the “International Day for Ending Impunity for crimes against journalists” (IDEI), it emerged
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
November is a month for remembrance, with All Souls (the Day of the Dead ) and commemorations on Armistice Day for those who died in the two World Wars. There is also a special day for journalists who were killed whilst doing their jobs. These are the ones who were not killed in the heat of battle but murdered in cold blood, in order to silence them and stop their investigations. UNESCO has designated 2nd November as their special day, and ECPMF supports the events held in Rome and Brussels by our partner organisation Ossigeno per l’informazione.…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Christina EtteldorfThe German Federal Constitution Court (FCC) decided on July 28 2016 (1 BvR 335/14) that reporting on information, which is already known to a large audience, violates the general right of personality less than a new publication about the same theme. Thereby the court established new criteria, which will have meaning for the balancing between freedom of the press and protection of privacy in the future.
The case was about the daughters of German television presenter Günther Jauch who had brought proceedings against Burda publisher because of an article published by the Burda publishing house belonging magazine “Viel…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Gianna IacinoOn 27 July 2016, the England and Wales High Court decided a libel case based on the new public interest defence, placing an emphasis on whether the defendant “reasonably believed” the matter was in the public interest (Case no.: HQ15D01507).
A young woman, suffering from bi-polar disorder had a brief relationship with the plaintiff. In December 2012, she accused him of rape. The police questioned him, but he was never charged with the crime. A few month later, in August 2013, the plaintiff brought an action against the young woman for false rape allegations with intent to pervert…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Annelies VandendriesscheOn 29 June 2016, the Correctional Tribunal of Luxembourg found Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet guilty of domestic theft, fraudulent access to a database, breach of professional secrecy, violation of trade secrets, and laundering and possession of illegally obtained material in the so-called LuxLeaks Trial. The trial concerned the large-scale leaking of confidential documents revealing tax deals concluded between large multinational companies and the Luxembourgish tax authorities. The journalist Edouard Perrin was acquitted. The Tribunal, though recognising Deltour and Halet as ‘whistleblowers’, referred to the lack of existing legislation at national and European level which would protect…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Tobias RaabThe Highest Court of Italy has decided that media have to delete older articles from their online archives in order to secure the right to privacy. The decision was based on a case about media coverage about a lawsuit against an owner of a restaurant on the website PrimaDaNoi.
The plaintiff had asked the website to delete the article after it had been published on the site for more than two years, because he found it to not be relevant anymore and felt violated in his right to be forgotten. After the provider of the website had refused…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Ingo BeckendorfThe press is allowed to take photos of judges who take part in a criminal case in more then three hearings. As well, the defendants can be photographed, even if they show their discomfort to the press members. However, the presiding judge can order an anonymisation by the press as far as some of the defendants are concerned. That was decided by the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) on 9 September 2016 (case number: 1 BvR 2022/16).
The reason for the decision is a criminal case at the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) in Munich. Ten persons have been…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
