Censorship has cross-fertilised and gone viral infecting both democracies and their authoritarian counterparts.
Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression
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CATEGORY: Germany
Media in exile: Eurasia’s last vestiges of freedom of expression
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyyet, one of Turkey’s most popular newspapers, was awaiting an appeal on his case in Turkey from Germany when the news of the coup d’etat in his homeland came. Scores of...
#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
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
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
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