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Despite Prime Minister Robert Fico declaring investigation a priority. The slain journalist’s recent reports did involve the names of associates of current top Slovak government officials. by Emil Weber Twenty-seven-year-old Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová were discovered shot dead at their home in the town of Vel’ka Mača, East of Bratislava, on 25 February,
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
More benefits for citizens but the right of journalists to publish data without the consent of the interested parties seems at risk. A short essay by the lawyer Andrea Di Pietro On the occasion of the seminar on “Freedom of the press and access to judicial and administrative sources” (see) organized by the Roman Press
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The number of assaults grows also due to the greater resistance of reporters to the gag of self-censorship, the director of Ossigeno told ADNkronos from Adnkronos – “We have verified it, with all the checks we have been doing for ten years: there is more than one case a day of attacks on journalists. And
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
To all those not covered by the confidentiality of sources. And it is necessary to recognize their judicial status in order to save them from thousands of spurious lawsuits This speech was delivered by Alberto Spampinato, director of Ossigeno per l’Informazione, in Rome, on February 27, 2018, at the Central National Library during the ASR-Ossigeno
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Veneto Region has filed a lawsuit against the online publication VicenzaPiù to the court of Venice. The former chief editor Giovanni Coviello and the publisher – who received a request for a total of € 410 thousand in compensation – have been brought to trial because of a series of articles published between January
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Jane Whyatt
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom with fifteen other campaign groups is calling on the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker to protect journalists against rising deadly threats. It follows the murders of Jàn Kuciak and his fiancée at their home. Jàn Kuciak was a data journalist working for the news website Aktuality.sk in Slovakia and investigating alleged corruption involving EU funds. Thier deaths come only a few months after the assassination by car bomb of Maltese investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Candles in memory of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova. Photo: Flutura Kusari…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
In Termoli, Alessandro Nardella, from Telemolise, had gone outside the hospital morgue after the sudden death of a young woman On 1 February 2018 the video operator of Telemolise, Alessandro Nardella, was hit in the face with a head by a family member of a 19-year-old who died shortly before at the Hospital of Termoli
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The court condemned Mario Barzaghi, former vice-president of Confindustria Monza and Brianza for private violence and threats against the journalist of L’Espresso. Sentenced to 8 months in prison, with suspended sentence, also the daughter, Letizia Anna Brambilla. The facts date back five years ago. On 10 April 2013 Fabrizio Gatti was carrying a journalistic investigation
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Why did the chief of the Slovakian police deny that warnings had been received from Italian judges concerning the ‘Ndrangheta structures ? Investigations taking place in Slovakia to find those responsible of the killing of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend are turning into an intricate legal thriller that will be hopefully solved soon. The
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Emil Weber
Six members of the European Parliament have called on the European Commission (EC) to swiftly initiate legislation to protect investigative journalism in Europe.
Fekete Hajnal, Jávor Benedek LMP, CC BY 2.0
The cross party MEPs David Casa, Ana Gomes, Monica Macovei, Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Stelios Kouloglou and Benedek Jávor, in a letter dated 19th February 2018 to the EC Vice-president Frans Timmermans, said that the type of legal action nicknamed SLAPP, which is increasingly used to silence critical voices, requires “an EU response”.
SLAPP is an acronym for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. According to the Public Participation Project…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
