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🇸🇰#Slovakia's govt must cease smearing & discrediting of journalists, guarantee the editorial independence of media, including public service media, & withdraw legislative measures limiting
#MediaFreedom
💡Initial takeaways from the mission:
https://www.article19.org/resources/slovakia-media-freedom-under-threat/
🇹🇷Several journos have been detained in #Türkiye under terrorism-related allegations, with no access to lawyers, while lawyers are denied info about the investigation. This lack of transparency threatens civil society. They must be released immediately!
https://www.article19.org/resources/turkiye-release-the-detained-journalists-without-delay/
People in #Georgia 🇬🇪 continue to protest against the recent elections, which many claim were rigged. In some instances, their demonstrations have faced a harsh police response.
Their #RightToProtest must be respected & upheld.
#MediaFreedom mission in #Slovakia 🇸🇰 kicks off today
We'll focus on media capture, the dissolution of the public broadcaster
#rtvs smear campaigns against journalists, impunity for crimes against them & bringing Slovak legislation in line with intl standards.
https://www.article19.org/resources/slovakia-deteriorating-press-freedom-prompts-advocacy-mission/
🇵🇱Key issues for #MediaFreedom in #Poland:
🔸Counter #SLAPPs + decriminalise defamation
🔸Improve safeguards for the broadcaster’s independence
🔸Reform media regulators to ensure impartiality
🔸Protect media pluralism & editorial independence
🔖Report:
Czy 🇵🇱Polska odejdzie od artykułu 212 kodeksu karnego? Organizacje pozarządowe walczą o dekryminalizację zniesławienia od 20 lat.
Nasza ekspertka Joanna Szymańska w rozmowie z Radiem TOK FM omawia problem #SLAPPów i pracę na rzecz zmian prawnych.
Podcast z audycji Popołudnie Radia TOK FM. Anna Piekutowska. Gośćmi audycji byli: Joanna Szymańska.. Dostępna transkrypcja. Temat: Złamał niejedno życie dziennikarza i aktywisty – Polska odejdzie od zniesławienia? [art.212 kk]
Imprisoned journo Daniyar Adilbekov must be released, and the charges against him dropped. #Kazakhstan must repeal the provision criminalising ‘false information’, discontinue prosecutions based on it & provide redress to all victims.
As the environment for #FoE, media pluralism & independent journalism in #Slovakia 🇸🇰 is increasingly hostile, we join an advocacy mission to meet leading media orgs, press freedom advocates + political leaders to discuss key challenges & potential solutions.
https://www.article19.org/resources/slovakia-deteriorating-press-freedom-prompts-advocacy-mission/
ARTICLE 19 joins CSOs in #Poland🇵🇱 in urging Prime Minister Donald Tusk to take concrete steps to strengthen
#righttoprotest in particular to address the problems with controversial 'cyclical assemblies'.
https://www.article19.org/resources/poland-amend-law-on-assemblies-protect-right-to-protest/
🚨 TUT.BY, once the largest media outlet in Belarus, was crushed by authorities in 2021.
Editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova & director Lyudmila Chekina faced charges like "incitement to hatred" & "tax evasion." Both were sentenced to 12 years in prison.
