Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the French judicial authorities to reject a European Investigation Order (EIO) issued by Bulgaria that targets Atanas Tchobanov, a Bulgarian journalist resident in France. RSF fears that this arbitrary order could threaten the confidentiality of journalistic sources. The editor of the Bulgarian investigative news website Bivol, Tchobanov learned on 2…
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On 03 August, Moscow’s police has detained at least ten journalists covering a rally organized by opposition groups. Continuing the protest of 27 July, about 1500 people had gathered in the capital of Russia in order to demonstrate for fair elections to the city council. The European Federation of Jounalists (EFJ) and its affiliate, the…
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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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International Policy Digest (24.01.2019) – https://bit.ly/2FLyAeF – Marco Respinti is an Italian journalist and lecturer on religious, political and literary issues. He is also the director-in-charge of Bitter Winter, a daily online magazine on religious liberty and human rights in China. On 23 January, he participated in a conference about religious freedom in China organized…
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European Court of Human Rights (10.01.2019) – https://bit.ly/2sqr2VZ – In today’s Chamber judgment[1] in the case of Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan (application no. 65286/13) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: two violations of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence) of the European…
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