Albania:"Free reporting risks losing battle with propaganda"
By Emil Weber
The Tirana Court dismissed on 1st December 2017 a high damage compensation application from a company against Albanian investigative journalist, Artan Rama.
Artan Rama
Mr. Rama had published an article in Facebook, in his Publicús program account, reporting that the company “Edil Al-it” had participated in a public tender despite its failure to pay tax obligations. In November 2016, the company lodged a defamation application asking 110,000 Euros for damage compensation. The company questioned the authenticity of a tax document on which the reporting was based.
“As much as disturbing, it (the court case) was strange”, Mr Rama told the…
