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France: European Court: Israel boycotts are unlawful discrimination Date:20/07/2009 Israel finally won one last week in an international human rights court...
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Monday, 20 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: Fashion on trial: France debates whether women can wear niqabsDate:07/07/2009 'In the bustling farmers' market of this northern Paris suburb, the fault lines of French Islam intersect...
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: Government pushes through “spruced-up” version of draconian Internet piracy billDate:21/09/2009 The repressive mentality that imbues France’s anti-piracy bill, even its new version, could jeopardise access to information when alternative ways exist to protect literary and artistic creation, Reporters Without Borders said today...
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Monday, 21 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: No more 'Memory Laws'Date:26/11/2008 ARTICLE 19 welcomes the recommendation of an official report on 'memory laws' that no new laws on 'historical truth' and memory should be adopted...
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: Sarkozy proposals on press raise concerns over media independenceDate:16/10/2008 The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists, said today it is worried about some proposals made by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he launched a national discussion on print media...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: Two regional newspapers raided Date:03/10/2008 Reporters Without Borders has expressed 'exasperation' at raids carried out by police and judicial officials on two daily newspapers in the French city of Poitiers, in relation to the alleged violation of confidentiality of a judicial investigation into a murder case...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FRANCE: What is the West moving away from? Date:09/03/2009 The Zaman dailys Paris correspondent Ali Ihsan Aydin recently reported an interesting piece of news from Paris: Aymeric Chauprade, an academic, was fired because his interpretation of the Sept...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France approves broadside to digital piratesDate:23/10/2009 France will send out the first warnings to digital pirates early next year after passing tough legislation allowing for Internet access to be cut for those who illegally download movies and music, a minister said...
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Friday, 23 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France’s 92A equivalent declared unconstitutionalDate:11/06/2009 The proposed French law to deter online copyright infringers, known by the acronym Hadopi and couched in similar terms to New Zealand’s failed section 92A of the Copyright Act, has been struck down by France’s Constitutional Council...
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Thursday, 11 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
French Journalist facing five year imprisonmentDate:14/06/2010 A French journalist Augustin Scalbert, who works for the news website Rue89...
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Monday, 14 June 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in publicDate:14/07/2010 France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
'French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in publicDate:13/07/2010 France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public...
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy accused of using security service to spy on journalistsDate:04/11/2010 President Nicolas Sarkozy personally supervises a team of security agents which spies on troublesome French journalists, it was claimed yesterday...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy accused of violating press freedom in Bettencourt leak probeDate:14/09/2010 French daily newspaper Le Monde has accused the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy of breeching press freedom in a leak investigation...
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy Draws Ire Over Media Spying ClaimsDate:11/11/2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly ordered France's domestic intelligence agency to spy on journalists who annoyed him...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Sarkozy’s Web Piracy Law Passed; Raises European Ire Date:14/05/2009 France passed one of the world’s harshest laws against Internet piracy, giving the government the right to disconnect users who illegally download music and film...
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Thursday, 14 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Women in face veils detained as France enforces banDate:12/04/2011 At least two women have been briefly detained in France while wearing Islamic veils, after a law banning the garment in public came into force...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Case of London, Otchakovsky-Laurens and July v. FranceDate:28/11/2008 The three applicants (respectively, a writer, the chairman of the board of directors of the publishing company P.O.L., and the publication director of the newspaper Libération) were found guilty of defamation …
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Friday, 28 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Soulas and others v FranceDate:28/11/2008 In this case the two French applicants, Mr Soulas and Mr Faye (the director of a publishing house and a writer respectively), were convicted of incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence, following the publication of a book in which Mr Faye declared that the Western civilization was not compatible with Islam and advocated a war of ethnic conquest...
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Friday, 28 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Leroy v FranceDate:28/11/2008 In this case a Mr Leroy, French cartoonist for the magazine Ekaitza, and the director of this magazine, were respectively convicted by the French authorities for the crimes of apology of terrorism and complicity in apology of terrorism...
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Friday, 28 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Du Roy and Malaurie v FranceDate:05/05/2009 Mr Albert Du Roy, editor of the weekly magazine 'Evénement du Jeudi' published an article with the headline 'Sonacotra: the Left puts its house in order' …
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Tuesday, 5 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
FranceDate:18/08/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in France...
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Le Pen v. France (application no. 18788/09)Date:10/05/2010 penalty imposed on Jean-Marie Le Pen for statements about Muslims in France …
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Monday, 10 May 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Esso v. GreenpeaceDate:01/10/2010 In this case, two constitutional principles were in conflict: the principle of freedom of expression and the principle of ownership over tangible assets such as trademark...
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Friday, 1 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Hachette Filipacchi Associes (Paris Match) v. FranceDate:21/10/2010 The French weekly magazine 'Paris Match' issued an article in February 1998 containing a picture of the murdered Prefect of Corsica, Claude Erignac...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Lindon, Otchakovsky-Laurens and July v. FranceDate:29/10/2010 In August 1998, the publishing company P.O.L published a novel called Le Procès de Jean-Marie Le Pen…
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Friday, 29 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Dupuis and others v FranceDate:05/11/2010 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a judgment of 7 June 2007 that the French authorities violated the freedom of expression of two journalists and a publisher...
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Friday, 5 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Société de conception de presse et d'édition et Ponson v. FranceDate:26/11/2010 In this case, the applicants were a French company incorporated under French law called Société de Conception de Presse et d'Edition and its publication director, Gérard Ponson...
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Friday, 26 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Faurisson v FranceDate:28/01/2011 The claimant, a university professor, gave an interview in a magazine in which he doubted the existence of gas chambers for extermination purposes at Auschwitz and in other Nazi concentration camps...
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Friday, 28 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
July and SARL Liberation v FranceDate:11/03/2011 On 19th October 1995, Judge Bernard Borrel was found assassinated in Djibouti, where he had been working for the Minister of Justice. The local authorities concluded that the Judge had committed suicide...
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Friday, 11 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
France: Sarkozy under pressure over claims French journalist was spied onDate: 02 September 2011 "French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government came under increasing pressure Friday after Paris daily newspaper Le Monde said a judge had evidence that French secret services had illegally spied on a journalist to find out his sources...
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Friday, 2 September 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
EU - Council of Europe countries agree to protect internet freedom of expressionDate: 26 September 2011 "Governments can be prosecuted under human rights law if companies fail to protect critical infrastructure and freedom of expression
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Monday, 26 September 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 26 September 2011
French senate bans denial of Armenia genocideDate: 24 January 2012 "AFP - French senators have passed a bill outlawing the denial of the Armenian genocide in 1915, with a seething Turkey slamming the move and...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Future or Funeral? A Guide to Public Service Media Regulation in Europe"[...] nobody needs another paper on the future of public service media in Europe. This unique phenomenon of collectively funded electronic mass media has been subject to extensive research over the last few decades and different models have been described and analysed to the nth degree...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Freedom of Expression on the InternetREPORT: "Whenever new communications and media platforms have been introduced, their innovation and application was met with scepticism, fear or outright banning by the ruling parties and authorities who feared the unknown medium, and its capacity to oust them from power...
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Thursday, 8 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012