Projects in 'Netherlands'
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
25. September 2012
MLDI is particularly active before the European Court of Human Rights, whose judgments set standards for all 47 States of the Council of Europe and are highly authoritative elsewhere.
The most recent case was in Germany, when the magazine, Bild, challenged an injunction against reporting critical remarks made by the leader of the opposition about former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The court ruled that Bild should establish the truth of the remarks and obtain a response from the former Chancellor before publishing them.
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Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia), Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
23. April 2012
Among the threats to media freedom around the world is misuse of the ordinary laws of the countries in which the media operate. Chief among these is criminal libel, which is one of the laws most frequently abused to imprison journalists.
MLDI has now made a high-level bid to stop the abuse of this law, at least in the 47 countries signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights. We have formally asked the European Court of Human Rights, which polices the Convention, to lay down clear markers for criminal libel in order to protect journalists.
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Netherlands
15. September 2010
The Media Legal Defence Initiative worked with the applicants' lawyers and led a coalition of interveners in the case of Sanoma v. the Netherlands, before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
Our intervention urged the Grand Chamber to overturn an earlier judgment by a lower chamber at the Court which had found that police did not need judicial authorisation to compel evidence from media.
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