Credits: Dimitar Dilkoff/ AFP We partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform, a Europe-wide system of public alerts to flag and remedy serious threats to media freedom, call on the Russian authorities to release journalist Evan Gershkovich immediately and to drop all charges against him. Evan Gershkovich, a US national, was…
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Credits: DAMIEN MEYER /. AFP “I noticed unusual noises when I used my car on Friday morning. After a check at the garage, I found out that my wheels had been sabotaged again, almost two years after the first time”. Morgan Large is a journalist for the Breton radio station Radio Kreiz Breizh (RKB). During…
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The Union of Journalists of Ukraine is reporting mass violations of journalists’ rights near the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves). Source: Union of Journalists of Ukraine; Suspilne news outlet Details: It is noted that supporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) are covering cameras, swearing, threatening to beat reporters with…
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In her statement, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called on states to do more to increase the security of journalists working in conflict zones. “There are many areas around the world, particularly in conflict or post-conflict zones, where it is dangerous, even life-threatening, to practice journalism. The war in Ukraine provides…
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The fundamental rights of access to information and freedom of the press are vital for democratic, inclusive, and participative societies. These fundamental rights fall under freedom of expression as a norm of international law. Freedom of expression requires a free press in which journalists can report on public issues and inform public opinion, without restraint…
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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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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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On 30 July, about a dozen men dressed in T-shirts with the inscription “Tradition and Order” violently entered the press center of the Ukrinform news agency in Kiev, Ukraine, during a press conference of parliamentary candidates. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its member National Union of Journalists of Ukrain (NUJU) in condemning the…
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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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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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