Motion lodged in Scottish Parliament based on Index's media freedom research
Great success for ECPMF's partner Index on Censorship: A Scottish politician lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament on 27 March on media freedom following Index on Censorship’s annual Mapping Media Freedom report, crediting its authors for “their continued endeavours to defend media freedom and protect journalists”.
Mapping Media Freedom, Index on Censorship’s project monitoring threats to media freedom in 42 European and neighbouring countries, recorded 1,089 violations in 2017. As the motion notes, a majority of these threats came from official or governmental bodies.
The motion, put forward by Andy Wightman MSP of the Scottish Greens, “deeply regrets” the loss of life of…