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Serbian B92 journalists under government attack
ANEM, the Association of Independent Electronic Media in Serbia has issued an alarming statement about the lack of respect for press freedom in the country. ANEM “protests strongly at the re-emergence of unacceptable and irresponsible rhetoric in the public arena in Serbia” and “urges all democratic public and professional journalism and media associations to express […]
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Belarus: legal proceedings against online satire
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus (White Russia) apparently wasn’t amused by some satirical animated cartoons about him. The Minsk office of the Public Prosecutor started criminal proceedings against 3 activists from the organisation Third Way ‘for insulting the President’. Such behaviour can be punished with a maximum of 5 years prison sentence under article 367 […]
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UK and NL ban glorification of terrorism
In a similar move both the UK and Dutch governments have revealed plans against the justification and glorification of terrorist and other offences. The UK proposal would authorise the Home secretary to deport any foreigner involved in extremist bookshops, centres, organisations and websites. The UK government plans to draw up a list of specific extremist […]
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Angry pro software patent company takes down FFII website
The long running legal fight between the German software company Nutzwerk (Leipzig) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII, best known for its extensive lobby against software patents) has culminated in the takedown of the FFII.org website on 1 August 2005. Technically, the website itself wasn’t removed, but in a far more radical […]
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Rome II: Applicable law and freedom of expression
According to the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), severe threats to freedom of expression and freedom of the press may occur if the European Parliament adopts Article 6 of the draft Rome II Treaty as modified by the EP Legal Affairs Committee on 21 June 2005. The rapporteur was Diana Wallis, ALDE UK MEP. The […]
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Update on Alvar Freude case
Alvar Freude, the German internet activist, was acquitted on all accounts in the appeal at the German penal State Court of Stuttgart on 15 June 2006. On his website, Freude documents many developments regarding filtering and blocking in Germany, including hyper-links to websites with radical right-wing content and a distasteful website. 4 of these sites […]
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OSCE conference on media freedom on the Internet
The third OSCE Amsterdam Internet Conference was held on 17-18 June 2005. The conference focused on the situation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the Southern Caucasus and Central Asian regions, with experts from this region delivering presentations on the situation in their countries. The debate showed that governmental over-regulation and content censorship are […]
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German court confirms blocking order ISPs
The German administrative court of Düsseldorf has once more rejected complaints from internet access providers in the district of Nordrhein-Westfalen against the order to block access to 2 neo-nazi websites hosted in the US. The order was issued in 2002 against 80 different service providers in the region. The providers already saw 8 legal attempts […]
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EDRI-member NNM wins blog contest
The blog of Markus Beckedahl from EDRI-member Netzwerk Neue Medien has won an award as the best international blog promoting freedom of expression. The awards were organised by Reporters Without Borders. They selected around 60 blogs that, each in their own way, defend freedom of expression. The organisation then asked Internet-users to vote for the […]
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NL Municipality wants to ban famous hacker gathering
URGENT PRESS RELEASE WHAT THE HACK (23.05.2005) The organisers of ‘What the Hack’, the 2005 edition of a series of famous Dutch outdoor hacker conferences, were told that their conference will not receive the municipal permit needed for the event to happen. ‘What the Hack” is planned to take place on a large event-campground in […]
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Report about UNESCO conference St. Petersburg
From 17 to 19 May UNESCO organised a large conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, ‘Between two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society’. The 450 participants from all over the world were invited to the luxurious Konstantinovsky Palace. In her opening speech Françoise Rivière, the Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, described the context of […]
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Council of Europe declaration on human rights and Internet
On 13 May 2005 the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers adopted a declaration on human rights and Internet that was prepared by a special committee of academic experts and government representatives. According to the press release, “the declaration is the first international attempt to draw up a framework on the issue and breaks ground […]
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