Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
April 19th, 2012
A radical Muslim group
released a video threatening a number of
German journalists last week. The Salafist group named journalists from newspapers Frankfurter Rundschau and Tagesspiegel in the video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday (12 April). The recording showed photographs of the journalists, detailed private information and threatened to reveal more if the media continued to publish “lies” about Frankfurt Salafist group DawaFFM. The group refers to itself as “The True Religion”, it has been widely criticised by press and politicians for its aim to have a copy of the Koran in “every household in Germany, Austria and Switzerland”,
April 10th, 2012
In 2005 Flemming Rose commissioned the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that sparked protests and riots across the world.
In an exclusive book extract, Rose explains why bans on hate speech across Europe are based on a false understanding of its role in the Holocaust
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February 21st, 2012
The Paris and Cologne offices of a Turkish newspaper were
attacked by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) last week. Zaman newspaper says that a group of nearly 15 masked PKK supporters entered its Paris office on 15 February, threatening employees and breaking furniture and computers. Meanwhile AFP has reported that arsonists torched the paper’s Cologne headquarters on the evening of the same day. The EU, USA and Turkey all classify the PKK as a terrorist organisation.
January 27th, 2012
The prohibition of Hitler’s infamous work is a symbolic measure that has lost all impact, says Daniella Peled
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September 12th, 2011
Facebook has agreed to work with the
German government on a code of conduct aimed at privacy protection. The code, agreed at a meeting on Wednesday between German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and Facebook’s director of policy in Europe, Richard Allen, will cover issues such as media literacy and data transmission in accordance with German law. The agreement follows discussions around Facebook’s adherence to German data protection laws. Last month, Thilo Weichert, a data protection commissioner in Northern Germany, claimed
Facebook’s “Like” button violated German data protection laws.
February 22nd, 2011
Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch, the German journalists imprisoned in Tabriz
have been released, after the government reduced their 20 month sentences for reporting on the case of a Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery in 2006.
The German chancellor,
Angela Merkel, has defended criticism of the foreign minister’s meeting with Iranian president, saying it was necessary to secure the journalists’ release.
February 16th, 2011
David Beckham’s
libel case against In Touch magazine has been
thrown out of an American court. Beckham brought the £15.5m
lawsuit over an article which alleged that he had paid for sex with a prostitute. He sought USD25m in compensation. The judge accepted that the article was innaccurate but could not establish malice on the facts of the case. This is required under US law, although a German court has found in their favour and
awarded damages. He intends to
appeal the decision.
February 9th, 2011
Video game Bulletstorm will be released in heavily-censored form in Germany. Regulators will remove several features from the full version, including
blood, dismemberment and “ragdoll effects”. This censorship will be imposed even though the game has attracted a
USK18+ certificate. Germany has previously considered introducing a national
ban on violent games, but this plan was ultimately
aborted.
