Congrats to the winners of the 2024 European SLAPP Contest! 🎉 It takes real talent to turn malicious legal battles into a horrendous sport. Big shoutout to our extraordinary host Charlie Holt who must have been an entertainer in a past life.

Huge thanks to our esteemed jury & everyone who voted for the People's Choice Award!

Special gratitude to the incredible minds at CASE coalition & SLAPP targets. Your dedication deserves celebration every day. 🙌

https://www.the-case.eu/latest/the-european-slapp-contest-2024/

📢Join us in 📍Rome for a #conference to examine synergies between #RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom and #Democracy

📌with an emphasis on #Italy Eastern & Southeast Europe

We will look into the growing threat of #SLAPPs and ways to advance media resilience.

📅17.10

https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/Appuntamenti/Media-Democracy-Nexus-in-the-European-Space

🔔The first public event of CASE Italia 🇮🇹

🗣️We will hear from journalists & activists targeted by SLAPP about their experience, analyse the Italian context & assess how to strengthen the anti-SLAPP transnational network

📅16.10

More info & registration:

https://www.rcmediafreedom.eu/News/For-a-transnational-anti-SLAPP-network-countering-gags-on-public-participation

The trilogues are underway between the European Union institutions as they debate the legal technicalities which will determine the strength of the protection against vexatious lawsuits offered to journalists and activists.

Meanwhile, our research clearly shows that SLAPPs continue to mushroom across Europe and be should recognised as one the most pressing challenges for the universal right to speak and right to know., and ultimately - our democracies.

#StopSLAPPs

https://www.the-case.eu/latest/how-slapps-increasingly-threaten-democracy-in-europe-new-case-report/

🔔#Report #Release #SLAPPs

#SLAPPs targetting journalists and activists are a growing threat to our right to speak, right to know and ultimately – our democracies!

📕This report provides the most recent overview and analysis of the data we continue to collect.

Our findings clearly show that a strong EU Directive is of utmost importance!

Learn more:
https://www.the-case.eu/latest/how-slapps-increasingly-threaten-democracy-in-europe-new-case-report/

The #UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcomes the Council of Europe's
Draft Recommendation as a vital baseline for member states to address #SLAPPs in national legislation.

Consult the full submission that includes suggestions on how to strengthen the text:

https://antislapp.uk/2023/08/03/uk-anti-slapp-coalition-submitted-evidence-to-the-council-of-europe/

We support the approval of the
Council of Europe's Draft Recommendation to counter #SLAPPs. The text is comprehensive & could significantly expand legal protections and guarantees.

Consult our comments that welcome the initiative and aim to further strengthen the draft:

https://www.the-case.eu/latest/coes-draft-recommendations-a-comprehensive-text-that-could-expand-protections-against-slapps/