Autism, cross-border CUP, services for pregnant women: healthcare between Italy and Slovenia. An interview

After over seven years of judicial ordeal and after spending fifteen months in pre-trial detention on drug trafficking charges, investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic was acquitted for the second time by the Appellate Court on 17 January. We interviewed him while waiting for the final verdict

OCCRP, the transnational investigative journalism platform against crime and corruption, has devised a system to prevent lawsuits, prevent self-censorship, and defend journalists from gag lawsuits – an actual shield in defence of reporters. We interviewed Drew Sullivan, co-founder of OCCRP

Media expert lawyer Andrea Di Pietro positively comments on the anti-SLAPP package of the European Commission and stresses the need for training initiatives aimed at legal practitioners, to recognise and combat the gag complaints that threaten freedom of expression and the right of citizens to participate in the public debate

All'indomani della pubblicazione della direttiva e della raccomandazione contro le cause pretestuose, in un incontro pubblico con la CASE, Coalizione contro le SLAPP in Europa, la vicepresidente della Commissione risponde alle domande di Matthew Caruana Galizia e spiega il percorso che ha portato ad iniziative legislative di portata storica

A public consultation on gag complaints is open until 10 January. In a meeting on the subject with organisations from all over Europe, which we attended on Thursday 25 November, Vice President of the European Commission Vera Jourova renewed her call for numerous contributions from all countries of the EU

We co-signed a call to release Nedim Türfent, behind bars for terrorism after a clearly unfair trial

The CASE coalition of which OBCT is part has received the text that will be presented to the European Parliament next Monday: a commitment to defend the rule of law and public participation, which collects many suggestions and proposals from civil society organisations

Con una relazione d’iniziativa (INI) è partito il lavoro delle commissioni JURI e LIBE a contrasto delle SLAPP, ritenute una minaccia per la democrazia europea

Sui media europei la repressione in Bielorussia non fa abbastanza notizia. E così i bielorussi della diaspora si organizzano e fanno "citizens' journalism", nella speranza di scalfire l'indifferenza dell'opinione pubblica e delle istituzioni europee. L'intervista con Ekaterina Ziuziuk, dell'associazione bielorussi in Italia, presidente del presidio regionale Trentino-Alto Adige di Articolo 21

Su iniziativa della tedesca Viola von Cramon, 83 membri dell'Europarlamento chiedono alla Commissione europea di agire perché si metta un freno al disboscamento illegale in Romania

As the list gets longer of European journalists and activists targeted by vexatious lawsuits, institutions deliver concrete commitments for legislative actions and interventions that OBCT has also solicited in the last, intense year of transnational advocacy

The data from the first four months of monitoring by the MFRR consortium confirm a concerning landscape for the safety of journalists and the state of media freedom, both in EU member countries and in countries as Serbia and Turkey

Il progetto Journalists-in-Residence Milano (JiR Milan), gestito da Q Code Magazine, offre una tregua, un contesto amico e possibilità di arricchimento professionale a chiunque stia subendo minacce o pressioni per via del proprio lavoro. Ce lo spiega il condirettore di Q Code Christian Elia

Il 3 maggio è la giornata mondiale per la libertà di stampa. Per Articolo 21 abbiamo fatto il punto sulla drammatica situazione in Turchia: controlli, lunghe detenzioni preventive, arresti lampo, censura e l'emblematica detenzione del filantropo Osman Kavala

The abuse of law as a tool to silence dissent, influence freedom of expression and capture media freedom. The 9th of a series of thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom through a curated aggregation of contents

Dalle corriere alle aule scolastiche, le campagne di alfabetizzazione mediatica in Moldavia utilizzano gli strumenti più fantasiosi e innovativi per raggiungere tutti gli strati della popolazione e istruire le nuove generazioni nella lotta alla disinformazione

OBCT is among the founders of ECPMF, a media freedom centre based in Leipzig – just where the demonstrations that would lead to the collapse of the Wall started in October 1989. Thirty years later, one of the slogans of that revolutionary autumn has become an angry claim on the electoral posters of the far-right AfD party

Forced to waste time, energy, and money to defend themselves against lawsuits that are unfounded in almost 90% of cases, journalists in Italy and Croatia are well aware of the SLAPP phenomenon (strategic lawsuit against public participation). Expert talks in Europe and a promising journalist's bill in Italy

Less than two months after acquittal in the first instance, two journalists and an activist find themselves accused of "terrorist propaganda": Erol Önderoğlu, Ahmet Nesin, and Şebnem Korur Fincancı will have to face the appeal trial