15 May 2014

What’s at stake for freedom of expression and national security? A live-streamed panel discussion promoted by the Central European University of Budapest on May 16

The disclosures of mass surveillance by the NSA and other security agencies by the whistleblower Edward Snowden have been met with a sense of outrage, particularly outside the United States, principally on the grounds of the human right to privacy.

Yet the nature and degree of the mass surveillance that has been exposed as well as states’ responses to the publication of the revelations by the Guardian and other newspapers have also impacted upon freedom of expression, particularly that of journalists, as well as of the public at large. This event will ask a number of questions concerning the rights of journalists and whistleblowers in the face of states’ reliance on national security based arguments to justify their mass surveillance programmes.

Watch it live.

Program

Welcome and introduction: Wolfgang H. Reinicke, Founding Dean of the School of Public Policy, CEU

 

1:00p.m -2:30p.m  States, surveillance and disclosure
 

Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services, Guardian News & Media Limited

M. André Goodfriend, Chargé d`Affairs, Embassy of the United States, Budapest

Martin Scheinin, Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the European University Institute, former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism

Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Special Representative on Freedom of the Media

Sejal Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Studies, CEU

 

2:30-3:00 Coffee break

 

3:00-4:30  Journalists, whistleblowers and public interest 

 

Peter Noorlander, Chief Executive, Media Legal Defence Initiative

Irina Borogan, Deputy Editor, Agentura.ru

Anuška Delić, Investigative Journalist, Slovenian daily Delo

Tamás Bodoky, Editor-in-chief, Atlatszo.hu Reception to follow
 

Sessions will be live streamed - check cmcs.ceu.hu  for more information

 

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and its partners and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. The project's page: Safety Net for European Journalists.A Transnational Support Network for Media Freedom in Italy and South-east Europe.