Category: <span>Germany</span>

#NoImpunity: Crimes against journalists go unresolved

Since 2004, over 700 journalists have been killed for their reporting. Nine out of 10 of these cases go unpunished.

Germany: G20 journalists face assault, intimidation and loss of accreditation

Journalists covering the G20 Summit in Hamburg in July were subject to assaults, intimidation and some lost their accreditation, according to verified incidents documented by Index on Censorship’s project Mapping Media Freedom.

Tailor-made laws: The state of surveillance in Germany

by Martha Otwinowski | 07 Nov 16

What is worse: intelligence services gathering data without any legal basis or secret services operating within a legal framework that allows them to obtain vast amounts of personal information?

Mapping Media Freedom: In review 30 July-10 August

by Index on Censorship | 12 Aug 16

Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe.

8-9 July: The power of hip hop

by Index on Censorship | 03 Jun 16

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

by Index on Censorship | 24 May 16

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”

by Index on Censorship | 15 Apr 16

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

by Ryan McChrystal | 11 Feb 16

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

by Catherine Stupp | 15 Dec 15

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

by Catherine Stupp | 16 Sep 15

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.