Germany
Campaigns and Advocacy
11 July 2011
Germany is considering a deal to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia despite the latter's dismal human rights record, including severe restrictions on freedom of expression.
From the Communiqué
3 December 2008
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European body of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), welcomed last week's defeat in the upper house of Germany's Parliament of an anti-terrorism law that would have given the federal police unprecedented spying powers.
14 August 2007
Germany recently launched criminal proceedings against 17 journalists who published information related to U.S. prisoner rendition flights and German secret service activities in Irag during the 2003 invasion, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).A German committee investigating the renditions (movements of prisoners by the Central Intelligence Agency with layovers in Germany) and suspected misconduct of the domestic intelligence service, the BND, was trying to keep documents cited by the reports classified.
1 June 2006
The German government has promised to launch a special inquiry into a scandal involving journalists who were paid by the federal intelligence agency to spy on their colleagues, say Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
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Reports
22 January 2009
16 April 2008
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