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On January 13, 2018, in Villacidro (province of Medio Campidano), Gianluigi Deidda was attacked and insulted by the organizers of bonfires in honor of Sant’Antonio Abate. He was documenting with the camera a joint intervention by the forest police and the municipal police to check that no material which produces harmful smoke was being burnt.
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
On January 10, 2018 the prosecutor Aldo Giubilaro denied access to Vinicia Tesconi, collaborator of the online newspaper La Gazzetta di Massa Carrara “I would prefer you not to attend this press conference”, the prosecutor said, in front of the other journalists who were admitted. Then he closed the door. He said that he does
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
It was reported in a joint statement by the Assostampa and the OdG Puglia, expressing solidarity (read). The episode occurred on January 17, 2018 The cameraman Fabio Pignatelli was attacked on the spot where a road accident had occurred just sometime before. A motorcyclist had lost his life. Some of the victim’s acquaintances have interrupted
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
On January 15, 2018 the journalist, editor of the online publication LaSpia.it, received insults and threats through the social network A few hours earlier, in an article, he reported the business of the mafia clans of Syracuse in the butchery sector (read). Among the users who sent threatening messages, there are the daughter of the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Cassation ordered it. According to Antimafiaduemila (read), the memories of PCs and mobile phones, cards and information supportware were returned to the journalist of Il Fatto Quotidiano, Marco Lillo, and to the art director of the newspaper, Fabio Corsi. The seizure was ordered, in July 2017, by the public prosecutor of Naples after the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
By Jane Whyatt
Europe’s media freedom community is meeting on February 15th and 16th in the historic setting of Gdansk’s European Solidarity Centre for the Free European Media conference, to build support for critical journalists under threat. In an interview with ECPMF the President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) outlines the challenges and hopes.
"Leaders are not defending the freedom of the media but attacking it" Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, EFJ President
Under the banner of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), delegates have a wide-ranging agenda of current concerns. They also draw on the town’s heroic history of fighting for free…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
One year to the day, since German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel was sent to jail in Turkey. He has still not being indicted.
This article on the issue is a comprehensive read: "Es reicht" (in German)…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
It is a busy time for anyone interested in media policy developments here in the UK. In this post, Mark Bunting, a member of Communications Chambers and a visiting associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, gives his take on the Digital Charter that was announced recently by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), arguing that we need a new deal […]
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Media Policy Project
By Emil Weber
A Swiss non-governmental organisation which promotes tolerance and anti-discrimination was right to call a politician’s statements “verbal racism” in its website, the top European human rights court ruled on 9 January 2018.
Adrian Grycuk Courtroom European Court of Human Rights 05 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en
The GRA (Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus) was referring to statements made by the local Young Swiss People’s Party (JSVP) leader at a demonstration in Frauenfeld in November 2009. The youth wing politician had said “it was time to stop the expansion of Islam” and that the “Swiss guiding culture, based on Christianity, cannot allow itself to…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 9 January 2018 against a Romanian civil servant who had released unauthorized information concerning a religious leader which was published by his brother in media.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Almost 17 years ago, Mr. Gabriel Catalan, a historian working for a state council responsible for studying the archives of the former communist secret police service, released sensitive material which was published by the newspaper Libertatea, signed by his brother.
The newspaper story contained personal information on the…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
