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Alerts - Denmark

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Turkey / Denmark

Kurdish Roj TV fined but remains on air

A Copenhagen court fined Roj TV for violating the Danish anti-terror law but deemed that the television channel should not be shuttered for having allegedly spread propaganda for the PKK.

Denmark

Arrests foil plot to assassinate creator of controversial cartoon

(CRN/IFEX) - The following is a 12 February 2008 CRN press release:

Denmark

WAN hails victory for press freedom as court acquits journalists of disclosing Iraq intelligence secrets

(WAN/IFEX) - The following is a 4 December 2006 WAN press release:

Denmark

IFJ testifies in defence of journalists accused of publishing government secrets in reports on Iraq

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 14 November 2006 media release:

Denmark

Three journalists charged with "harming state security", face possible two-year prison sentence

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemned the trial that began on 13 November 2006 in Copenhagen in which the editor of the "Berlingske Tidende" daily newspaper, Niels Lunde, and two of his reporters, Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen, are accused of "harming state security" by publishing leaked Danish intelligence about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.

Denmark

Two journalists indicted for reporting on Iraq intelligence

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Denmark

"Significant escalation of risk" for Danish cartoonists, warns CRN after reports of threats by Osama Bin Laden

(CRN/IFEX) - According to a 24 April 2006 Reuters UK release, comments recently attributed to the al Qaeda leader raised the general level of threat against the 12 Danish cartoonists who had produced the controversial cartoons for the "Jyllands-Posten" newspaper. Speaking in the context of the cartoons, bin Laden was quoted as saying, "Heretics and atheists, who denigrate religion and transgress against God and His Prophet, will not stop their enmity towards Islam except by being killed."

Denmark

Economic boycott of Danish products over cartoons an attempt at mass censorship, says CRN

(CRN/IFEX) - The following is a 2 February 2006 CRN letter to the Danish prime minister:

Denmark

Newspaper receives bomb threat for cartoons of Muhammad

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Denmark

Two journalists charged with publishing confidential military information

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has denounced the laying of charges against two journalists from the conservative daily "Berlingske Tidende". On 26 April 2004, Jesper Larsen and Michael Bjerre were questioned and charged with "publishing information illegally obtained by a third party" under Article 152-d of the Criminal Code. They face a possible six-month prison sentence.

Denmark

Two journalists face charges over publication of leaked documents

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 19 April 2004 media release by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ affiliate:

Denmark

Journalists' right to protect sources threatened

Denmark

Secret phone-tap by Danish police "scandalous violation of journalists' rights," says IFJ