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🎉The time has come to reveal the nominees in the first category in the #EuropeanSLAPPContest
The Corporate Bully of the Year
Awarded to the corporation that has most aggressively pursued #SLAPPs & legal intimidation tactics against its critics.
Check this 🧵for details!
The Corporate Bully of the Year
Awarded to the corporation that has most aggressively pursued #SLAPPs & legal intimidation tactics against its critics.
Check this 🧵for details!
#Spain: @greenpeace_esp has been sued for reporting on alleged water & soil pollution caused by giant cow farm Valle de Odieta. Activists face threats for flagging how business damages the environment. Time to shame those who choose money over our planet. #SLAPPContest
#France: Afriland First Bank launched a campaign of harassment and intimidation against whistleblowers and transparency campaigners following a report by 2 NGOs. Activists remain under severe pressure. Call out corporate bullies! #EuropeanSLAPPContest #StopSLAPPs #AntiSLAPPCon
🔴 Journalists and lawyers providing evidence to the @UKHouseofLords said the impact of #SLAPP cases is the tip of the iceberg, with pre-court intimidation and the threat of costly legal proceedings meaning countless articles never get published
pressgazette.co.uk/impact-slapp-c…
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@UKHouseofLords "In terms of the pressure it puts on the journalists, the legal action is never in isolation".
Clara Rewcastle-Brown @sarawak_report describes the massive vilification, surveillance, hacking, attacks, and defamation she endured over the course of her investigations.
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Clara Rewcastle-Brown @sarawak_report describes the massive vilification, surveillance, hacking, attacks, and defamation she endured over the course of her investigations.
#STOPSLAPPs
🔴Susan Coughtrie @FPCThinkTank: "We conducted a survey a couple of years ago with 63 journalists in 41 countries. Over 70% had received a legal threat, and the Uk was identified as the international leading source of those threats"
Delighted to have contributed to this timely report on #SLAPPs in #Europe, which cites some of @FPCThinkTank's Unsafe for Scrutiny's research findings, incl. the #UK as a leading transnational source of legal threats against journalists uncovering financial crime & corruption ⤵️
This finding was drawn from @FPCThinkTank's global survey conducted in 2020 w/ 63 investigative journalists in 41 countries, who also reported that legal threats were most challenging to respond to (more so than physical or digital attack). @JFJfund @OCCRP fpc.org.uk/publications/u…
Also being launched today is the @CASECoalition’s report which covers >500 cases in 29 countries. This shows the scale of the problem of legal intimidation & #SLAPP, which has often been largely hidden to date.
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Today, we had another chilling effect incident during a trial on a public interest affair. In particular, a reporter was asked to exit the room in the middle of the hearing (1) #slapp #stopslapps
under confusing justifications. The in force protocols for Courthouses define a maximum of 15 people per room and in certain cases of increased public interest such as corruption cases, the Judges have decided in advance to either accept a small number of reporters or no at all
but have published their decision in advance and have proposed alternatives to ensure protection of rights connected to reporting from this type of trials. Today, the only reporter (who has been following the case for a while now) was asked to exit the room
