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By Emil Weber
Maltese anti-corruption activist, Tina Urso, feels she has been targeted by a government- backed name-and-shame online campaign in recent months. She, her lawyer and media and human rights activists criticise the authorities responsible for investigating the threats.
Tina Urso (photo: private)
Urso is a member of the voluntary, grassroots group Il-Kenniesa active in raising anti-corruption awareness. "We started with Il-Kenniesa in June 2017 when the Government did not remove the ministers who were mentioned for wrongdoing in the 'Panama papers',” Urso told the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF).
Following a snap election in May 2017, the Labour…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
Maltese anti-corruption activist, Tina Urso, feels she has been targeted by a government- backed name-and-shame online campaign in recent months. She, her lawyer and media and human rights activists criticise the authorities responsible for investigating the threats.
Tina Urso (photo: private)
Urso is a member of the voluntary, grassroots group Il-Kenniesa active in raising anti-corruption awareness. "We started with Il-Kenniesa in June 2017 when the Government did not remove the ministers who were mentioned for wrongdoing in the 'Panama papers',” Urso told the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF).
Following a snap election in May 2017, the Labour…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 17 July 2018 that the investigation into the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya violated the European Convention on Human Rights and was characterised by procedural inadequacies.
Anna Politkovskaya 2005 in Leipzig (copyright: Blaues Sofa, Anna Politkovskaja im Gespräch mit Christhard Läpple, CC BY 2.0)
The Third Section of the court decided, by five votes to two, that the domestic Russian investigation amounted to a violation of Article 2 of the Convention, the right to life.
Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Nowaja Gazeta, and in 2005 she was made a laureate of…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 17 July 2018 that the investigation into the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya violated the European Convention on Human Rights and was characterised by procedural inadequacies.
Anna Politkovskaya 2005 in Leipzig (copyright: Blaues Sofa, Anna Politkovskaja im Gespräch mit Christhard Läpple, CC BY 2.0)
The Third Section of the court decided, by five votes to two, that the domestic Russian investigation amounted to a violation of Article 2 of the Convention, the right to life.
Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Nowaja Gazeta, and in 2005 she was awarded the Prize…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on 17 July 2018 that the investigation into the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya violated the European Convention on Human Rights and was characterised by procedural inadequacies.
Anna Politkovskaya 2005 in Leipzig (copyright: Blaues Sofa, Anna Politkovskaja im Gespräch mit Christhard Läpple, CC BY 2.0)
The Third Section of the court decided, by five votes to two, that the domestic Russian investigation amounted to a violation of Article 2 of the Convention, the right to life.
Politkovskaya worked for the Russian newspaper Nowaja Gazeta, and in 2005 she was awarded the Prize…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Even though tech giants are businesses, they’re virtual states akin to absolute monarchies, with millions of users as subjects, writes Federico Ast. This blog first appeared on the LSE Business Review and is reposted here with thanks. For most of history, the only form of government that humanity had known was despotism. Pharaohs, tsars, emperors and kings enjoyed a centralised […]
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Media Policy Project
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of 'publishing state secrets,' Turkish media reported on July 16. Yet, another trial is still pending.
Erdem Gül
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of “publishing state secrets,” his newspaper Cumhuriyet reported on July 16.
Gül, the Ankara bureau chief of daily Cumhuriyet, appeared before judges at the Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court on July 16 in the case of National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks bound for Syria in 2014.
Cumhuriyet’s former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who was accused of leaking the information on the MİT…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of 'publishing state secrets,' Turkish media reported on July 16. Yet, another trial is still pending.
Erdem Gül
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of “publishing state secrets,” his newspaper Cumhuriyet reported on July 16.
Gül, the Ankara bureau chief of daily Cumhuriyet, appeared before judges at the Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court on July 16 in the case of National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks bound for Syria in 2014.
Cumhuriyet’s former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who was accused of leaking the information on the MİT…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of 'publishing state secrets,' Turkish media reported on July 16. Yet, another trial is still pending.
Erdem Gül
Turkish journalist Erdem Gül has been acquitted of charges of “publishing state secrets,” his newspaper Cumhuriyet reported on July 16.
Gül, the Ankara bureau chief of daily Cumhuriyet, appeared before judges at the Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court on July 16 in the case of National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks bound for Syria in 2014.
Cumhuriyet’s former editor-in-chief Can Dündar and main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who was accused of leaking the information on the MİT…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Oscar Davies is a media lawyer who will start pupillage at One Brick Court in October 2019. In this blog, he provides a summary of some of the evidence that has been submitted to the House of Lords Communications Committee as part of its inquiry into online regulation. This post was first published on Inforrm, and is reproduced here with […]
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Media Policy Project