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Everything you need to understand, fight, and build resilience against SLAPPs – whether on a national, regional or global level.

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HRVOJE ZOVKO

Hrovje Zovko is the President of the Croatian Journalists Association, which has tallied at least 1,163 lawsuits against journalists and media associations ongoing in the country – with plaintiffs claiming almost HRK 68 million (9 million euros) in total. More than 30 of these lawsuits were filed by the public…
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OKKE ORNSTEIN

Okke Ornstein is a Dutch journalist who was targeted for his work exposing corruption in Panama. Ornstein was imprisoned for criminal defamation after writing about the convicted fraudster Monte Friesner in 2016. Upon his return to the Netherlands following his release, he then faced multiple civil defamation lawsuits filed by…
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NATASA KANDIC TESTIMONIAL

Nataša Kandić is an internationally-acclaimed human rights activist and director of the Centre for Humanitarian Law (HLC) in Serbia. Kandić has spent the last three years fighting for accountability for human rights violations and war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s – in particular, the 1995 Srebrenica…
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PROFESSOR SADURSKI TESTIMONIAL

Professor Sadurski is a distinguished constitutional law scholar and public intellectual from Poland. In response to two Tweets he wrote criticising the government, Sadurski was sued by both the governing Law and Justice party (PiS), and the public broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP). In this video he discusses how the lawsuits…
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DER EUROPÄISCHE SLAPP-CONTEST

Wenn es zwei Dinge gibt, die Europa gut kann, dann sind es kitschige Popmusik… und SLAPPs. Ja, heutzutage scheint das Einzige, was die Reichen und Mächtigen in Europa mehr genießen als eine extravagante Tanz-und-Gesang- Einlage, eine missbräuchliche Klage zu sein, die auf kritische Stimmen abzielt. Egal, ob Sie ein multinationales…
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To save European journalism, we need an anti-SLAPPs directive

Op-ed published by Euractiv To save European journalism, we need an anti-SLAPPs directive (44026)
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