Articles - Germany
5 December 2008
Germany
5 December 2008
Germany
3 December 2008
Germany
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.
17 August 2007
Germany
17 August 2007
Germany
14 August 2007
Germany
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.
2 June 2006
Germany
2 June 2006
Germany
1 June 2006
Germany
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).
14 January 2003
Germany
14 January 2003
Germany
14 January 2003
Germany
There are worrying signs that Internet free expression in Germany may not be so free, reports Index on Censorship (INDEX). Last week, a German judge acquitted an individual of charges of "endorsing criminality" after he posted a deliberately sarcastic note on a German website about the 11 September attacks on the United States.
9 March 1999
Germany
9 March 1999
Germany
9 March 1999
Germany
A German Supreme Court decision in late February to give prosecutors the right to raid the homes and offices of freelance journalists and to seize materials without an official warrant is dangerous and threatens press freedom, says the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), in a report circulated by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).