(Translated with DeepL from RTL info) It was denounced as a threat to the freedom of expression: the law on business secrecy, which transposes into French law a European directive on…
(Help Refugees) Help Refugees, L’Auberge des Migrants, Utopia 56 and Refugee InfoBus have released a report revealing police intimidation and harassment of aid workers supporting refugees in Calais and Dunkirk. You…
(Mapping media freedom) 18 July 2018 - Public Sénat channel revealed that Alexandre Benalla, who worked in the Macron security team during the presidential campaign, targeted a journalist and violently…
On 6 July, the Constitutional Council in France confirmed fraternity as a core constitutional principle, and therefore stating that "helping others, even illegitimately present on the national territory, is legitimate",…
(Translated from French / On ne se taira pas) Another step in the repression of opponents of the burial of nuclear waste in Bure: a lawyer searched and taken into custody. In his defence,…
(Index on censorship) 22 May 2018 - A photographer and a videographer were detained for 48 hours and charged with unauthorised entry after covering the occupation of a school in…
(OHCHR) PARIS/GENEVA (23 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has commended efforts by France to combat terrorism but has raised concerns about the effect anti-terrorism laws have on the…
(OHCHR) GENEVA (11 May 2018) – UN rights expert Fionnuala Ní Aoláin will visit France from 14 to 23 May to gather first-hand information on counter-terrorism initiatives and assess how they…
(CIVICUS Monitor) Major police operation targets anti-capitalist community Throughout April police attempted to forcibly evict hundreds of activists occupying land in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, firing tear gas as some protesters threw Molotov cocktails…
(Pollinis / Translated from French) PETITION TO PARLIAMENTARIANS “Ladies and gentlemen, You will soon be asked to decide on the proposed law "on the protection of know-how and undisclosed commercial information…