Maltese prosecutors today indicted the man accused of ordering the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in another important milestone in the fight against impunity and for full justice for her assassination. On August 18, prosecutors filed the bill of indictment in court seeking life imprisonment for businessman Yorgen Fenech on charges of complicity […]

Zur deutschen Version Polish lawmakers have simplified provisions on interview “authorisation”, the process requiring journalists to obtain interviewees’ approval of an interview text before it can be published. The move is part of a broader amendment to the Press Act, passed by the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament on Sept. 29. Adopted in 1984, […]

Read in English Polnische Gesetzgeber haben Bestimmungen zur „Autorisierung“ von Interviews vereinfacht – den Prozess, bei dem Journalisten das Einverständnis der interviewten Person hinsichtlich des Interviewtextes einholen müssen, bevor er veröffentlicht werden kann. Dieser Schritt ist Teil einer umfassenden Änderung des Pressegesetzes, welche von der unteren Kammer des polnischen Parlaments am 29. September verabschiedet wurde. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a recent judgement by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) finding that Russia had violated the free expression rights of a Russian editorial house and journalist that had covered the “Kursk” disaster of 2000. In a unanimous judgement last week the ECHR ruled that the Russian courts, […]