Ukrainian police have detained five people, including a paediatric surgeon and a rock musician, over a 2016 car bomb attack that killed the investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet. Senior law enforcement officials said the motive for killing 44-year-old Pavel Sheremet was to destabilise the country but declined to say who might have ordered the murder. “In…
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According to the minister, the responsibility of the authorities is to ensure that Ukrainians reduce consumption of disinformation. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Borodyanskiy has said 90% of Ukrainians cannot tell fake from truth. “We have been at war for five years. This is a complex war. This is an unusual war. It…
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An Indonesian journalist hit in the face by a rubber bullet during protests in Hong Kong has been permanently blinded in one eye, her lawyer has said, in what is the most serious injury among members of the media since the movement began in June. There are growing concerns about the threat to journalists from…
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The Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones has been physically assaulted in London while celebrating his 35th birthday with friends. In an attack he called “a blatant premeditated assault”, Jones said he was kicked, punched and thrown to the ground by a group of men in the early hours of Saturday morning. He said that…
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21% of the Bosnian citizens share the opinion that attacks on journalists are justified, says a new report made for the needs of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Journalists’ Association (BH Journalists) and the Friedrich Erbert Foundation, published on 16 July. The study titled “Researching Media Freedoms in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2019” reveals worrying trends in the…
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Church property was destroyed under the pretext of “repair works” allegedly conducted by the occupying authorities. UNIAN (25.07.2019) – https://bit.ly/2JSnx4f – Simferopol’s Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral, the only temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine that is left in the occupied Crimea, has been looted and plundered, the Crimean Human Rights Group reported citing Archbishop…
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Under a draft law drawn up by the German Interior Ministry the country’s domestic and foreign intelligence services are to be allowed to hack into servers, computers and smartphones. The intelligence services would also be empowered to intercept the encrypted communications of publishing companies, radio and television broadcasters and freelance journalists in certain cases, or…
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Ukrainian investigative journalist Vadym Komarov is in a coma after being assaulted by an unidentified person on 4th May. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) call in condemning the attack and urge the Ukrainian authorities to ensure a safe working environment for journalists and bring those responsible to…
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Germany. Freedom of opinion and freedom of the press are considered a precious good in Germany. As a fundamental element of democracy they are anchored in Article 5 of the Basic Law: “Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and to inform himself without…
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Journalism in Europe has been weakened by relentless, and often hyped-up, anti-media rhetoric by some political leaders, either in power or hoping to get there (Photo: Ed Yourdon). Almost one person in two in the world does not have access to freely reported news and information. As Europeans, we can count ourselves lucky that we…
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