(featured photo: rally in Italy in favour of sea rescue by Repstatic.it) (ECNL) On 5 August 2019, the Italian Parliament passed that a law that increases punishment for offences and…
(Die Presse - Translated with DeepL) After the controversial operation against climate activists, the Viennese police continue to be criticized. What exactly are these incidents? Who are the activists? And…
(The Telegraph) Extinction Rebellion (XR) should be treated as an extremist anarchist group and police must stop their “soft touch” approach, a former Scotland Yard head of counter-terrorism has warned. Richard…
(CIVICUS MONITOR) #Greece 🇬🇷: @CNN investigative journalist Mina Karamitrou's car was destroyed by a bomb attack in Athens. We and the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers condemn the…
(CIVICUS MONITOR) [...] Romanian investigative journalist Emilia Șercan receives death threats https://t.co/fRWgcCaahv — Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) April 18, 2019 Investigative journalist subjected to death threats On 15th April…
(Amnesty International) Amnesty International is concerned that the authorities did not provide adequate protection for the participants of the “Equality March” in Białystok on 20 July. The march took place amidst…
UPDATE 19 July: Following these findings, the Paris Observatory of Public Freedoms recalls: that the right of assembly and freedom of expression are recognized and protected in accordance with the Constitution…
(Common Dreams) Hundreds of climate activists stormed a massive open-pit coal mine in Germany on Saturday, entering a standoff with police inside the mine while thousands of others maintained separate…
(The Network for Police Monitoring) Last week, the Guardian’s report on compensation paid by the Metropolitan Police for the mass arrests of anti-fascist campaigners in 2013 included confirmation from court documents of the deployment of…
UPDATE: According to the organisers, the protest had previously been notified and authorised by the police. (Translated from Dutch with DeepL - 6 July BRUZZ) In the Avenue du Port, in…