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Alerts - Germany

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Germany

Journalists threatened by Salafist group

In a YouTube video released last week, journalists critical of a campaign by the radical Muslim group "The True Religion" are told that if they continue to write about the group and its "brothers and sisters" personal information about them held by the group will be disclosed.

Turkey / France / Germany

Turkish newspaper's Europe offices attacked

"Zaman" is blaming Kurdish militants for violence in Paris and Cologne, including an arson attack on its offices in the latter city. The newspaper also accused PKK supporters of carrying out prior attacks on its offices in London, Vienna and Zurich.

Kazakhstan / Germany

Make rights key to good relations, says Human Rights Watch

The rights organisation is concerned about the violent crackdown on protesters and online censorship that occurred following a strike in the oil-rich town of Zhanaozen.

Germany

President pressures "Bild" to kill story

IPI criticised the president following revelations that he had pressured the country's leading tabloid to kill a critical story about an unusual personal loan he received.

Germany / Greece

Greek criminal case against German journalists sparks concern

A case was launched against the publisher of "FOCUS" magazine and several journalists after the German magazine criticised Greece over the debt crisis.

Germany

IFJ hails ruling on data retention law as victory for press freedom

The Federal Constitutional Court struck down the highly controversial law, which arose from a European Union directive on electronic data retention.

Germany

IFJ condemns political interference to remove TV chief

IFJ condemned the decision to remove Nikolaus Brender, editor-in-chief of the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).

Germany

Allegations of political interference loom over public broadcaster

The ZDF Administrative Council is expected to decide on the future of the broadcaster's editor-in-chief at a 27 November meeting.

Germany

More German journalists join battle to protect confidentiality of sources

(IPI/IFEX) - VIENNA, 23 April 2009 - A group of German journalists, lawyers and doctors today filed a complaint before the Federal Constitutional Court against a controversial law that greatly increases the power of the police to conduct secret surveillance of citizens.

Germany

Parliament defeats anti-terrorism law that would have required journalists to reveal their research material and sources

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a media release from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ regional group:

Germany

IFJ condemns increasing surveillance of journalists and trade unions

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 24 November 2008 IFJ media release:

Germany

German Football Federation launches attack against investigative journalist

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a media release from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ regional group:

Germany

IPI concerned at draft legal amendments that threaten protection of sources

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a 1 October 2008 IPI press release:

Germany

IPI welcomes Constitutional Court decision limiting application of right of reply against print media

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is an IPI press release:

Germany

Proposed amendment to telecommunications law threatens journalists' ability to protect sources' confidentiality

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is an 8 November 2007 IPI press release:

Germany

Seventeen journalists under investigation over leaking of confidential documents

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF learned with concern on 3 August 2007 that prosecutors in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and other German cities are investigating 17 journalists in connection with the leaking of confidential documents from a parliamentary commission that is looking into the activities of the German domestic intelligence service, the BND, in the fight against terrorism.

Germany

Parliamentary chamber passes resolution addressing access to information in positive terms

(IPA/IFEX) - The following is a 24 May 2007 IPA press release:

Germany

Constitutional Court ruling favours journalists' right to protect their sources

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed a 27 February 2007 ruling by the German constitutional court that a federal police raid in September 2005 on the offices of "Cicero", a political magazine that had published details from a leaked police report about Al-Qaeda, and the copying of data from its computers were "unconstitutional."

Germany / International

European Federation of Journalists supports German media boycott of Robbie Williams concerts

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is an 11 July 2006 media release of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), an IFJ regional group:

Germany

Parliament releases report about journalists who spied for, or were spied upon by, state intelligence service

(RSF/IFEX) - The German Parliament (Bundestag) has posted on its website ( http://www.bundestag.de/aktuell/pkg/index.html ) part of a report by a former judge revealing that the country's external intelligence service, the BND, has been spying on journalists. Some passages were censored and names replaced by initials at the request of the journalists. The report was posted on 26 May 2006.

Germany

RSF calls for full investigation into spying on journalists and release of secret report

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has urged the German authorities to carry out a full investigation into the spying on investigative journalists that was reportedly carried out by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from the early 1990s until the autumn of 2005.

Germany

IPI condemns ongoing treatment of "Cicero" magazine and reporter Bruno Schirra by German authorities

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is an IPI letter to Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble:

Germany

Government urged to launch appeal in "Princess Caroline Case"

(WAN/IFEX) - In a 14 September 2004 letter to Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries, WAN and the World Editors Forum (WEF) urged the German government to appeal the European Court of Human Rights' decision in the case of von Hannover versus Germany (the "Princess Caroline Case") by 24 September, the date by which appeals must be lodged.

Russia / Germany

CORRECTION: Russian journalist's invitation to German book fair not withdrawn

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is an IFJ statement:

Russia / Germany

Russian journalist's invitation to German book fair withdrawn

(IFJ/IFEX) - The following is a 23 September 2003 IFJ media release:

Namibia / Germany

Newspaper sued for defamation

(MISA/IFEX) - The Buschschule Namibia, a European juvenile welfare service project, has sued "Allgemeine Zeitung", a German daily newspaper, for publishing alleged defamatory and slanderous articles.

Germany

Police authorised to trace journalists' phone calls

Germany

IFJ condemns "dirty campaign" against creators in struggle for new copyright law

Germany

Press freedom and investigative journalism under threat

Germany / Montenegro / Serbia

WPFC receives response to concern regarding possible expulsion of Serbian journalists

Germany / Montenegro / Serbia

Germany considering expelling Serbian journalists