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To stay informed on all threats to media freedom,you can subscribe (it’s free) to the weekly webpage of the Council of Europe « Media Freedom »: website: https://www.coe.int/en/web/media-freedom Concerned about the increasing threats to media freedom in its 47 member-states, the Council of Europelaunched in 2015 a platform to protect journalists and journalism in partnership with leading organisations […]
Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by […]
14 Cumhuriyet staff emprisoned on terrorism charges From Reuters, Thursday, April 26, 2018 Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart, along with 13 others, was sentenced to jail today, the culmination of a long sham trial resulting from a crackdown on political opponents by Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan in response to a failed coup attempt in November of 2016. A […]
The murder of two journalists in the EU in the past six months has alerted the European media to the growing threat of censorship For most of Europe – or what a Bulgarian journalist calls the ‘so-called Western democracies’ – censorship is something that happens ‘out there’. Murdered journalists, writers and commentators ‘disappeared’, newspapers closed […]
Happy to inform on a new editorial cartoons competition, organized by the Canadian Committee for the World Press Freedom. Here are the rules of the competition: The theme for the 18th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is: The high price of a free press Press freedom around the world is in danger as journalists are threatened by […]
I reproduce a worrying news published by the press agency AnsaMed on new threats to freedom of the press in Tunisia. Our correspondent in Tunisia, Ilaria Guidantoni, will keep us informed about the evolution of the situation. A situation already reported, in May 2017, by Reporters Without Boarders and numerous other NGOs because the government […]
Here is an essential book to address the current debate on whether or not to legislate against “fake news”, particularly in our new world of social networks. – Oreste POLLICINO, Giovanni PITRUZELLA e Stefano QUINTARELLI “Parole e potere, libertà d’espressione, hate speech e fake news” published by EGEA in 2017. To face the debate it is […]
There has been a very strong participation of the 5.5 million Catalans called to the polls (nearly 82%), largely superior to the previous polls of 2015. The liberal centrist Ciudadanos party, led by the lawyer, Inés Arrimadas, took the first polling place in number of votes (25%) in front of the independentist formations (“Together for […]
Victim of an arrest warrant issued by the Turkish authorities, the Turkish journalist Can Dündar, while at the Internazionale festival in Ferrara to be honoured by the Anna Politkovskaja journalistic award, was secretly exfiltrated to Germany – where Dündar benefits from political refugee’s status – to avoid being arrested by the Italian police. Such Interpol’s […]
