This article was originally published on the Resource Centre on Media Freedom in Europe - 19 December 2019, accessible here. 1. The definition 1.1. Like the pebble thrown in the…
European Civic Forum and other 26 organisations wrote to Vice-President of the European Commission Věra Jourová in regards to the EU legislation to deter Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).…
By Obywatele RP In 2015 the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) Party came to power in Poland and gradually started to undermine independence of courts, and to threaten freedom…
UPDATE - 11 November 2019: The International Trial Watch, a platform bringing together lawyers from several countries to observe the Catalan Trial, published the assessment of the sentence: https://internationaltrialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/POSICIONAMIENTO_SENTENCIA_12112019-ingles-carta.pdf. The…
UPDATE - 4 October 2019: The European Civic Forum joins other organisations from all across Europe to condemn the attack against the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee: **** (Civic Solidarity - 1…
UPDATE - 26 April 2019: The Regional Directorate of the Police Corps in Trenčín, Criminal Police Department, decided that 12 activists from across Europe, who were peacefully protesting coal mining…
(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…
Radomir Lazovic from Belgrade, Serbia, received a written notification from the Magistrates Court that his sentence was converted into jail term. Lazovic, an activist from the citizens’ initiative Ne Davimo…
UPDATE (Extract of an article by Liberties, 23 January 2020, accessible HERE) Author: Jascha Galaski "Italy’s highest court confirmed last Friday [17 January 2020] that the arrest of Carola Rackete…
By Osservatorio Repressione (Translated with DeepL) The repression of all social struggles has been taking place for decades in Italy through the emergence of strict (and usually swift) justice from broad sectors…