Article originally published by Tony Wesolowsky for RFE/RL on 10 October 2020 Observers and government critics say Hungarian media outlets have been muzzled under Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Now, they…
Article originally published by Notes From Poland on 10 October 2020. A proposed anti-LGBT law has been submitted to parliament. If passed, it would ban pride parades (known as equality…
On 16 October, Samuel Paty, a teacher in Conflans, France, was murdered after showing his students caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. This horrendous act was followed by statements against some civil…
Stetament by CCIF (Collective against Islamophobia in France) in reaction to the threat by France's interior minister to dissolve the NGO working against Islamophobia, published on 19 October 2020. Unofficial…
Article originally published on Greenpeace, 22 July 2020 - accessible here Across the EU, journalists, activists, academics and their organisations are facing legal threats or fighting lawsuits designed to shut…
- Extract from the article by Gill Phillips, published on The Guardian on 28 May 2020. Read it in entire here [...] Attacks on journalists around the world take many…
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…