Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 30 July-10 August
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CATEGORY: Germany
8-9 July: The power of hip hop
A conference followed by a day of performance to consider hip hop’s role in revolutionary social, political and economic movements across the world.
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations
“No one – and especially heads of state – has a right not to be offended”
Index deplores the decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to authorise the prosecution of a German comedian for offending the President of Turkey.
European democracies fail to live up to their own standards on freedom of the press
Freedom of the press has always been a pretty reliable litmus test for the state of any democracy. However, as Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project shows
Germany’s far right waged a violent campaign against journalists in 2015
Over a year on from its launch, the anti-immigrant PEGIDA movement isn’t just attacking refugees, but also assaulting and intimidating the German press
Germany: Authorities leave bitter aftertaste in Netzpolitik treason case
Over a month after the Berlin-based blog Netzpolitik.org was charged with treason for publishing leaked government documents, details are trickling out about the extent German authorities went to in order to build a case against the journalists running the website.
End targeting of Netzpolitik
The investigation against Netzpolitik.org for treason and their unknown sources is an attack against the free press.
Media freedom in Europe needs action more than words
Freedom of expression is an assumed right in the European Union. But that assumption is little more than an idea anchored in our mental routine.
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Mass surveillance: Journalists confront the moment of hesitation
Following Edward Snowden’s revelations outlining the capabilities of intelligence agencies to monitor private online communications journalists are confronting a moment of hesitation.