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The latest bells of alarm. The commitment of the Secretary for Justice, Gennaro Migliore. The civil claims. The meetings with the prefects of Milan and Naples It is seams to be impossible to want to shine a light on threatened journalists in Italy. Ossigeno has reported their names (210 in the current year, 2883 in
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In the aftermath of last week’s EU referendum, Anya Proops QC explores the implications of Brexit for the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, due to take effect by 25 May 2018. So a week on from the Brexit referendum and it is clear that that there is no clear, carefully thought out strategy for extricating ourselves from the […]
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Media Policy Project
Six press freedom organisations led a three-day mission to Croatia, calling the country’s political leaders to guarantee the independence of the public broadcaster HRT
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
BHRT, the Bosnian national television, postponed the suspension of broadcasts expected since June 30th, but financial difficulties are yet to be solved
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Erol Önderoğlu have been released
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Suspended jail sentences for whistleblowers (12 months and 1.500 EUR penaly for Antoine Deltour and 9 months and 1.000 EUR penalty for Raphaël Halet) and acquittal for the investigative journalist (Edouard Perrin), that’s the verdict of Luxembourg court in the LuxLeaks case.
Judges in Luxembourg delivered today (29/06/2016) a verdict in LuxLeaks case related to the prosecution of two whistleblowers and a journalist for disclosing confidential documents from auditing firm PwC that showed how 340 multinational companies used secret tax deals to avoid paying into the public coffers. A European Parliament’s study estimates that EU countries lose 50 billion to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Dirk Voorhoof and Daniel SimonsInvestigative journalism sometimes operates at the limits of the law. This is especially true of what could be called ‘check it out’ journalism: reporting in which a journalist tests how effective a law or procedure is by attempting to circumvent it.
A recent decision shows that those who commit (minor) offences during this type of newsgathering activity cannot count on (major) support from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Journalists of the Swedish newspaper Expressen had undertaken to demonstrate the easy availability of illegal firearms by purchasing one. The Swedish courts were of the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane WhyattBritain’s newspapers, TV and radio show the ugly face of Brexit. A spike in race hate crime is reported, with the Muslim Council of Britain reporting more than 100 incidents in the first three days after the referendum vote to leave the EU.
BREXIT - Press covers 23 June
The Polish ambassador in London Witold Sobków has issued a statement expressing concern about xenophobic attacks in Cambridgeshire and in the capital. A Polish community centre and primary shoolchildren have been the targets of graffiti and hate speech.
Meanwhile the far-right anti-immigration British National Party reports “…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Katharina MikulcakOn Monday, 27 June, the ECPMF protested in front of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin together with Reporters without Borders (RSF), Amnesty International and other human rights organisations for the immediate release of the journalist and staff member of RSF, Erol Önderoğlu and his two colleagues, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, pathologist and chairman of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation, and the author Ahmet Nesin.
#FreeErol: Joint protest in Berlin to support imprisoned Turkish activists (Photo: ECPMF/Mikulcak)
The three have been arrested on 20 June and are now in pretrial detention. A trial date has not yet been…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt ECPMF and its partner organisations brought a message of solidarity to Croatian journalist Slavica Lukić, a victim of the country’s controversial “shaming” law. And they won an assurance from the President that the law should be abolished.
Members of the Croatia freedom mission met the President of Vroatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarović (left to right - Jane Whyatt, ECPMF; Scott Griffen, IPI; Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO; Kolinda Grabar Kitarović, President of Croatia; Rubina Moehring, RSF; Renate Schroeder, EFJ; Deniz Yazici, OSCE; Boris Bergant, EBU)
A European media freedom delegation led by the South East Europe Media…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
