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Police Lawsuit Threatens Freedom of Expression in Belgium

October 07, 2019 • by Camille Van Durme, Belgian League of Human Rights

Belgian police are suing three associations over an exhibition protesting police repression, in which Brussels police officers were showed in photographs.
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Spanish Ultra-Catholics in Crusade Against Artists and Entertainers

April 23, 2019 • by Rights International Spain

The number of complaints from ultra-Catholic groups, backed by extreme right-wing parties, against actors, playwrights, photomontages, performances, processions, carnival performances and exhibitions has increased dramatically in Spain in recent years....
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Spanish Filmmaker Imprisoned for Secret Recording in Crypt

April 18, 2019 • by Rights International Spain

A Spanish court has sentenced a documentary filmmaker who placed a camera and microphone in the crypt of a monument to the Fallen to one year in prison for discovering and revealing secrets. The filmmaker suspected that members of a brotherhood were me...
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Hungary and Croatia Try to Silence Slovenian Media

April 17, 2019 • by The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies

Government connections in two of Slovenia's neighbours try to influence media reports in the country, but Slovenia reacts strongly, showing a more progressive approach to freedom of the press.
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Refusal to Prosecute Author for Insulting Historical Legacy "Correct", Court Finds

April 15, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The Vilnius Regional Court has found that prosecutors correctly refused to launch an investigation into Marius Ivaškevičius's novel "Žali", and that prosecuting the author for his postmodernist work was impermissible in a democracy.
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Spain: Artistic Freedom Suffers New Attack

April 04, 2019 • by Rights International Spain

A professional association of Guardia Civil agents has declared they will sue the musicians Josetxu Piperrak & The Riber Rock Band because of the lyrics of their song "OVNI" ("UFO"), which they consider offensive to their job. The lyrics in questio...
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Man Jailed After Calling Former Croatian President a War Criminal

March 05, 2019 • by Lovorka Šošić, Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia

Human rights organisations have reacted to a harsh ruling against an activist who claimed the first Croatian president, Franjo Tuđman, was a war criminal during the unveiling of his statue in Zagreb.
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Croatian Journalists to Protest Against Prosecution and Intimidation

March 01, 2019 • by Lovorka Šošić, Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia

On Saturday 2 March the Croatian Journalists' Association is holding a protest for freedom of journalism under the slogan "You hijacked media, we don't give journalism!"
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Amendments to Lithuanian Law Threaten Freedom of Expression

January 28, 2019 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

The Lithuanian Parliament has started the new year by making fresh attempts to restrict the freedom of the media and the public to express their views.
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Strasbourg Win for HCLU in Hyperlinking Case

December 07, 2018 • by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

A Hungarian court judged that the 444 news portal had damaged the reputation of a political party by hyperlinking to a third-party video. The European Court of Human Rights has now found that the Hungarian decision violated freedom of speech.
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