An Irish court has created a precedent where damage to a person’s reputation could lead to criminal sanction — and no one seems to have noticed, writes Padraig Reidy
Has Ireland reintroduced criminal libel?
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Right to be forgotten: A poor ruling, clumsily implemented
In practice, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s ruling on the “right to be forgotten” was far too blunt, far too broad brush, and gave far too much power to the search engines to be effective.
A message for politicians: Don’t complain when reporters report
The narrative of evil newspaper versus innocent, naive, poor little politician is self-pitying and self-defeating, writes Padraig Reidy
Ukraine: No peace plan without accountability for human rights
President Petro Poroshenko 11 Bankova street 01220 Kyiv Ukraine 26 June 2014 Mr President, We, the undersigned members and partners of the Human Rights House Network (HRHN), condemned in the strongest terms human rights violations which took place...
Padraig Reidy: Ilham Aliyev’s nonexistent connection with reality
In an authoritarian society, with power utterly concentrated to the leader and his cadre, there is no such thing as an isolated failure. As a result, every aspect of life must be spun.
Blunt instruments: Media repression in the Ukraine crisis
The sentencing of journalists for doing their jobs in Egypt has prompted an international outcry. But what happens when journalists are prevented from doing their jobs freely? Nicholas Williams reports
Egypt’s Al Jazeera verdict: London journalists stand together in silent protest
The usually bustling entrance of the New Broadcasting House was silent and still for one minute this morning in protest at the sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists to seven years in Egyptian prison
Belarus: Bialiatski is out of prison – but not entirely ‘free’
Ales Bialiatski, a well-known Belarusian human rights defender, was released from prison on Saturday after staying for almost three years behind bars on politically motivated charges, Andrei Aliaksandrau reports from Minsk.
Voices from the frontlines of censorship: Andrei Soldatov
The beauty of the Russian approach to internet censorship is that it doesn’t need to be technically sophisticated to be efficient — it’s all about instigating self-censorship, writes Andrei Soldatov
Recap report: Beating retreat- Digital freedom in Turkey, Russia and Azerbaijan
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