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By Katrin WelkerOn 19 January 2016, the German Supreme Court Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) decided that a request to terminate the bank account of an interest group of fur farmers addressed to that group’s bank can be considered a legal call for boycott (AZ: VI ZR 302/15).
Deutsches Tierschutzbüro: Call for boycott of an animal protection association in the Internet allowed
An association, which advocates animal rights published an article on its website addressed to the bank of an interest group which represents fur farmers. In its article, the animal rights group asked the bank to terminate the bank account of the fur…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Katrin WelkerOn 9 February 2016, the England and Wales Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal brought by a number of media organisations against continuing restrictions on reporting about a trial concerning terrorism (case no. [2016] EWCA Crim 11).
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The case had been the subject of reporting from the outset. In May 2014, upon the prosecution’s request, the Court gave the order, that much of the evidence was heard either in total privacy or in a special closed session where accredited journalists could attend the hearing in camera but were prohibited to report of what took…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
For Giangavino Sulas and Umberto Brindani the public prosecutor had asked a prison sentence. The lawsuit for a 2010 article on the investigation on the “Monster” of Florence On April 26th, 2016, the national Court of Bergamo acquitted of libel the journalist of the daily Oggi Giangavino Sulas and the chief editor, Umberto Brindani, sued
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Extreme right Militants have insulted them and shoved them at the end of the mass service. Involved FanPage, Alanews, Lastampa.it, CNOwebtv and Vista At the end of a mass service in the church of San Ferdinando in Naples, to commemorate the death of Benito Mussolini, on April 28, 2016 five journalists from as many news
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
Acquittal sentence in the first degree appealed by the Attorney General. Alleged failure to rectify an article never published. Announced an appeal to the Supreme Court The President of the First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Catanzaro, Mr Fabrizio Cosentino, has announced the reasons for the judgment with which on March 9,
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
The TeleSveva journalist Mario Borraccino was also insulted during the match Casarano – Barletta. Solidarity from Ussi and Assostampa Puglia On April 24th, 2016 at the municipal stadium in Casarano (in the province of Lecce), fans of the host team have insulted the commentator Mario Borraccino, of the local broadcaster TeleSveva, preventing him from transmitting
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Ossigeno Informazione » O2 in English
by Martin HoffmannAt least twelve violent attacks, numerous threats and innumerable insults occurred since January 2016 against journalists in Germany. All of them happened at right-wing populist or extremist demonstrations. That indicates journalists in Germany are still heavily under threat as they have been in 2015, especially when reporting from political gatherings. The number of comparable incidents had increased with the rise of populist movements. One element in their propaganda is the agitation against the media they label “lying press”, as being a part of a government mouthpiece.
Most of the incidents occurred In Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania and Bavaria…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
In advance of tomorrow’s publication of the White Paper about the future of the BBC, Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, University of Westminster, reflects on what the content of the Paper might be. Is John Whittingdale the most hostile politician ever to have responsibility for the BBC? When a senior Telegraph journalist called his appointment as culture secretary “an effective declaration […]
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Media Policy Project
Following a five day mission in Zagreb, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, Nils Muižnieks, provides an account on the situation of media freedom in the country. Interview
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Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso - ECPMF News
Alarmed appeals to nation states by the Commissioner for Human Rights and Ministers of f the Council of Europe In order to promptly and accurately learn about the most serious violations of press freedom in each country, there would need to be an independent national monitoring body to do what in Italy Ossigeno per l’Informazione
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