IPI concerned at draft legal amendments that threaten protection of sources
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a 1 October 2008 IPI press release: IPI Concerned at Draft Legal Amendments that Threaten Protection of Sources in Germany Vienna, 1 October 2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeply concerned at a set of […]
Annual Report 2008: Germany
Annual Report 2008: Germany
World Report 2008: Germany
World Report 2008: Germany
Freedom of the Press 2007: Germany
Freedom of the Press 2007: Germany
IPI welcomes Constitutional Court decision limiting application of right of reply against print media
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: IPI Welcomes German Constitutional Court Decision Limiting Right of Reply Use The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, welcomes a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany limiting the application of the Recht […]
Proposed amendment to telecommunications law threatens journalists’ ability to protect sources’ confidentiality
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an 8 November 2007 IPI press release: Vienna, 8 November 2007 IPI Calls on German Parliamentarians to Rethink Amendment to Telecommunications Surveillance Law The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, expresses deep concern over a proposed amendment to […]
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. […]
Parliamentary chamber passes resolution addressing access to information in positive terms
(IPA/IFEX) – The following is a 24 May 2007 IPA press release: German Parliament Supports Open Access and Publishers Geneva, 24/05/2007 The Bundesrat, Germany’s second parliamentary chamber, has agreed to a resolution addressing the issue of open access and scientific publishing. IPA welcomes this statement as balanced and constructive. At a recent meeting in May […]
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.” “We […]
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: EFJ Supports German Media Boycott of Robbie Williams Concerts The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today expressed its full support for a German media boycott of Robbie Williams’s concerts after the singer banned […]
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 […]
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. A parliamentary committee was due to question the BND on 16 May about […]
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: H.E. Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble Interior Minister Ministry of the Interior Alt-Moabit 101 D D-10559 Berlin Germany Fax: +49-1888-68 12 926 Vienna, 24 November 2005 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in […]
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 […]
CORRECTION: Russian journalist’s invitation to German book fair not withdrawn
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ statement: Frankfurt Book Fair: An Apology In an IFJ press statement on September 23, it was suggested that the Frankfurt Book Fair had invited a Russian journalist to speak at an official Book Fair event that was later withdrawn. We have been asked to point out that the […]
Russian journalist’s invitation to German book fair withdrawn
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 September 2003 IFJ media release: Journalists Accuse Russia of “Sinister Interference” Over German Ban on Media Critic The International Federation of Journalists today condemned “sinister political interference” which it says is behind a decision to stop Anna Politkovskaja, a leading independent journalist, from taking part in the Frankfurt […]