SLAPPs — or strategic lawsuits against public participation — are being increasingly used by the rich and powerful to bully and silence journalists, activists and NGOs.
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Businesses and politicians are using legal intimidation to stifle dissenting voices, and many cases go unreported, report by the Coalition Against SLAPPs says.
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The rules aim to ensure the EU-wide protection of journalists, media organisations, activists, academics, artists and researchers against unfounded and abusive legal proceedings.Committee on Legal Affairs Source : ยฉ European Union, 2023 – EP
An agreement on the law was found in the early hours of Thursday.
EU co-legislators agreed on the directive to address the growing number of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) and protect defendants from unfounded, abusive litigation on matters of public interest.
A bid to create EU-wide legislation to protect journalists and whistleblowers from Strategic Ligitation Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) is faltering due to a few certain member states not wanting to concede control over their judicial systems, ME…
Italian anti-mafia author and human rights campaigner Roberto Saviano was on Thursday (12 October) convicted of libel and handed a symbolic fine for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “bastard” over her hardline views on immigration.
The number of abusive lawsuits against journalists and human rights defenders increased to a record 161 in 2022, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE).
Andrew Caruana Galizia says new anti-SLAPP law would not have helped his mother.
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The EU directive to protect journalists and rights watchdogs from abusive litigation entered inter-institutional negotiations on Wednesday (12 July) with key provisions remaining in the balance, after the European Parliament voted to approve the text w…
