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In an exclusive interview for Fairpress UNCUT, journalist of newspaper Jutarnji list, Dušan Miljuš, revealed that the police as well as other investigative bodies had knowledge of the the identity of the two men who attacked him in hours after the attack. To recall, almost nine years ago (June 2, 2008) Miljuš was brutally attacked in front of the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The anonymous user first requested for the removal of the video. Solidarity from Order and UNCI Sicily. Ossigeno: obscure children’s faces The journalist Riccardo Campolo, collaborator of the online newspaper Palermotoday.it, has received death threats and insults on the chat on his Facebook profile. “You’re dead, you c**k s****r, you understand? I’ll kill you”, a
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The Court of Bologna has acknowledged the responsibility for the hypothesized violence against the journalist and the use of a mafia method He had talked in a telephone call from 2011, with a person who hypothesised of “shooting him in the mouth”, to prevent him from writing other articles, referring to the journalist of L’Espresso
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Pierfrancesco Citriniti was filming with the camera the demonstration when he was hit by a man. The video is on Repubblica TV On February 21, 2017 in Rome, during the protest of taxi drivers who protest against the government and Parliament for some decisions that would damage them (read more), Pierfrancesco Citriniti, producer and director
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
Concern for the prosecutor’s pressures on Augusto Mattioli in the trial for the disclosure of confidential material on Monte dei Paschi di Siena In an official note, the National Order of Journalists has expressed its concern for the pressures exercised on journalist Augusto Mattioli by the prosecutor during a hearing in the trial against the
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
In Sardinia, Giulia Serra had reported a change in the price of milk. The Cooperative Lacesa in Birori (Nuoro province) contests the modality In Sardinia, a dairy cooperative has asked a blogger for the immediate deletion of an article that reported in a timely manner of a decision involving many shepherds of the Nuoro region:
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
by Jane Whyatt and Ana Ribeiro
Europe’s media freedom community is united in condemning the arrest of Deniz Yücel, Turkey correspondent for the German national daily Die Welt. His reporting related to a minister's hacked e-mails has led to charges of “spreading propaganda in support of a terrorist organisation and inciting the public to violence.”
Yücel was born in Hessen, Germany, with Turkish heritage. He worked as an editor for the German taz newspaper before moving to Die Welt in 2015. He has dual German and Turkish citizenship, and has been based at the latter newspaper’s Istanbul bureau.
ECPMF Chair Henrik Kaufholz says:
The detention…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
The Court of Appeal of Caltanissetta states that between the two categories there are no qualitative differences. The Martorana – Trovato case Between a professional and a non-professional journalist “there are no qualitative differences, but only quantitative ones” and therefore the norm of the Code that textually recognizes professional secrecy only to professionals should be
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The defamation bill towards a dead end in Senate There is a political standoff between gravediggers and those who are try to find a fix by putting a stop to spurious lawsuits Call on the Osce to appoint soon a new Media’s Representative Dunja Mijatovic will leave next March 10, after after serving a one
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O2 in English – Ossigeno Informazione
The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Karen Bradley has just announced a new Internet Safety Strategy to crack down on risks to children such as cyber-bullying, sexting and online trolls. One way that tech companies claim to protect children is through setting age limits – usually 13 years old – for the use of their social […]
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Media Policy Project