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Lawsuit against two journalists in the “Saxony Corruption Quagmire” – ROG demands an acquittal

Published on 30 July 2010Read

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Refusal to renew ZDF editor-in-chief’s contract would threaten broadcasting independence

Published on 27 November 2009Read

Deutsche Telekom admits having monitored journalists’ phone calls

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom’s admission on 24 May that phone calls between members of (...)

Published on 2 June 2008 Read

Leak investigation dropped in Munich

Munich prosecutor August Stern yesterday suspended an investigation into four journalists for “complicity in the divulging of state secrets.” He (...)

Published on 14 August 2007 Read

Constitutional court ruling favours journalist’s right to protect their sources

Reporters Without Borders hailed a ruling yesterday by the German constitutional court that a federal police raid in September 2005 on the (...)

Published on 28 February 2007 Read

Parliament releases report about journalists spied on by state intelligence and those who spied for it

The German parliament (the Bundestag) has posted on its website (www.bundestag.de/aktuell/pkg...) part of a report by a former judge revealing (...)

Published on 29 May 2006 Read

Government urged to extend right to confidentiality of sources after two journalists charged

Reporters Without Borders today urged the German authorities to extend the right to protection of sources to investigative journalists after (...)

Published on 17 March 2006 Read

Police authorised to trace journalists’ phone calls

Reporters Without Borders today voiced its concern at yesterday’s decision by Germany’s constitutional court authorising the police to trace (...)

Published on 13 March 2003 Read

Belarus journalist freed

Natallie Sudliankova, a Belarus journalist working for Radio Free Europe, was released by the German authorities on 18 October and returned to (...)

Published on 21 October 2002 Read

Germany - 30 December 2011

One blogger denied parole, another pardoned

Germany - 29 December 2011

Court acquits journalist who interviewed Kurdish separatist

Germany - 27 December 2011

Istanbul court resumes trial of 10 journalists accused in Ergenekon conspiracy

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He is the editor of Erk, the last opposition newspaper in Uzbekistan until it was banned by the authorities in 1993, and he was jailed on 18 August 1999 in the wave of repression after the failed assassination attempt on President Islam Karimov in Tashkent on 16 February 1999.

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