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Donato Ceglie wanted 250,000 euro from Nello Trocchia and former Senator Tommaso Sodano. The Judge: the claims disputed are true The former deputy prosecutor of S. Maria Capua Vetere, Donato Ceglie, had initiated a civil libel suit against Nello Trocchia, journalist and collaborator of the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano and Tommaso Sodano, former senator and
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The writer reflects on the relationship between the reporters who deal with organized crime and their sources from actual cases. Here is an excerpt In the article “Il Carabiniere infedele nel paese che fabbrica i dossier” (The unloyal police officer in the town that produces dossiers), published on August 3, 2016 by the newspaper La
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
He had filmed racist insults to migrants, Order and Union of journalists of Liguria say, who protested from Sanremonews.it – August, 7th 2016 – “The right to make and receive information is untouchable even and especially in dramatic moments where tensions, exploitation, violence often converge on journalists. To those who try to impose it with
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ana Ribeiro
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will have its state parliamentary elections on 4 September, which could bring more seats for the AfD at the helm of German politics. A reporter and documentary filmmaker is setting out to try to discover why people in the northern state are voting for the right-wing party.
Raphael Thelen and his team have been travelling through German states to take a deeper look into why right-wing, foreigner-excluding movements, such as the political party AfD, have been making such gains in the country presently. After Saxony, it is time to travel through Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
“Sucker, piece of s., you will not write anymore for no other newspaper in the world,” a female voice told him. The Police is investigating On July 29, 2016 the journalist Antonio Crispino, collaborator of Corriere.it, denounced the Police of Frattamaggiore (in the province of Napoli) for having received threats, that same morning, with two
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The decision was announced on August 18, 2016 with a brief note appeared on the official website of the club. Protests from Order, Trade Union and USSI Campania On August 18, 2016, the Napoli Football Club has announced that, starting from the next league season, only “journalists of newspapers directly invited” by the club will
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Lello Ciampolillo (M5S) has twisted the names of Francesca Russi (La Repubblica) and Adriana Logroscino (Corriere del Mezzogiorno) and has defined them as “not journalists”. Solidarity from FNSI and Assostampa Puglia In a video posted on Facebook, on his personal page, the Senator Lello Ciampolillo of the 5 Star Movement, commented with offensive language the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Ingo Beckendorf
The planned film version of a real hostage drama, which happened in the German town of Gladbeck in 1988, is legally permissible. The general personality rights (rights over personal publicity) of one of the hostage-takers and condemned murderers do not conflict with the realisation of the film project.
"Dieter Degowski and Hans-Juergen Roesner brutally robbed a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck [then West Germany] and took two employees hostage. They demanded 300,000 Marks and a fast getaway car. They were granted both. But it was then that the real drama began to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
A report based on June 2016 Joint International Mission to Croatia warns against government interference in the public broadcaster activities
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
by Gianna Iacino
On 29 April 2016, the Belgian Court of Cassation decided that a newspaper has to anonymise an article about a deadly car accident in its online archive. The plaintiff is a medical doctor.
A doctor caused a drunk-driving accident that killed two people two decades ago, and the Court ruled that he has the right to have his name deleted from the newspaper's online archives in connection with the crime. (Photo: public domain)
More than 20 years ago, in 1994, the plaintiff caused a car accident due to drunk driving. Two people died in that…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
