Posts Tagged ‘Spain’
September 6th, 2011
The
Cuban government this weekend
revoked the press credentials of journalist Mauricio Vicent, correspondent for Spanish newspaper
El País. Cuban authorities said that Vicent, who has been a reporter on the island for twenty years, had portrayed a “biased and negative image” of Cuba. Since 2007, the Cuban government has prohibited reporting by foreign correspondents from the
Chicago Tribune, the
BBC and Mexico’s
El Universal.
August 8th, 2011
Journalist Gorka Ramos was among the four demonstrators
arrested for public disorder last Friday when armed riot police clashed with anti-austerity demonstrators in Madrid. A
video of Ramos, who works for
Spanish news site
La Información, shows him being addressed by the police while he was tweeting the events, he was subsequently beaten. La Información
reports that 13 protesters were treated for injuries and that Ramos is being held in a Madrid jail, unable to speak to his family or employer. According to the police, Ramos was arrested for insulting and spitting on them.
October 25th, 2010
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Britain’s privacy watchdog,
has reopened its investigation into Google Street View after the company admitted it copied personal data. Google is facing similar pressures from privacy watchdogs in other countries, including
Spain,
Germany, and
Canada. In May, the ICO had investigated revelations that Google had gathered unprotected information but it
concluded that no “significant” personal details had been collected. The renewed scrutiny stems from
Google’s admission, following analysis by other privacy bodies, that they had harvested more information than previously thought.
October 19th, 2010
The Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) has
filed a lawsuit against Google. Following an investigation launched in May, the Street View service has been charged with violating the country’s data protection laws. In August, a judge decided to investigate a
similar complaint made by another association (APEDANICA). AEPD says that, if found guilty, Google could be hit with fines of between 84,000 and 840,000 dollars for each offence. Street View has proved controversial in a number of countries, including
Germany,
Switzerland and the
UK.
July 12th, 2010
The Cuban authorities have announced that they
intend to release 52 political prisoners. The first prisoners are expected to
arrive in Madrid tomorrow (13 July). Cuba has come under increased international pressure following the death of
political prisoner Orlando Zapato Tamayo in February. Tamayo had been on a hunger strike. The first five prisoners are being allowed to travel to Spain with their relatives. The remaining 47 will be released over the next few months, they will also be allowed to relocate to Spain. The Cuban Human Rights Commission claims that after the releases Cuban jails will still hold 110 political prisoners.
April 13th, 2010
The Spanish National Court has
acquitted five executives of a now-defunct Basque-language newspaper, including its former editor-in-chief Martxelo Otamendi, of belonging to the separatist group ETA. The court said the prosecution had not provided enough evidence to support its case, which centred on economic ties between the daily Egunkaria and the proscribed terrorist organisation. The paper was
shut down on a judge’s order in 2003 on the grounds that it assisted ETA. Following
the closure of Egin in 1998, Egunkaria was the world’s only Basque-language newspaper.
May 15th, 2009
Spain’s national television broadcaster has sacked its director of sports for censoring booing during the national anthem before the national cup final. Read more
here
July 15th, 2008
The Basque daily was closed down 10 years ago today, signalling the beginning of the Spanish government’s repression of left-wing nationalist media, writes Angelo Miotto
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