For those interested - Archiwum Osiatyńskiego just published a new report on how to repair media landscape in Poland. I had an opportunity to contribute on the problem of SLAPPs.

Kudos to Anna Wójcik

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Mostly today I am thinking about that Maltese woman who refused to back down. The mother who stood up. The daughter they could not silence. The sister who exposed the truth.

Remember Daphne Caruana Galizia tonight. She deserved better than we gave her.

Next: justice

Najważniejszy outcome naszej konferencji anty-SLAPP. Minister Adam Bodnar zapowiada zniesienie art. 212 KK.

Tekst Dominika Sitnicka dla OKO.press 👇👇👇

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Speaking in a panel full of women💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Our Joanna Szymańska facilitates discussion on country initiatives to counter #SLAPP s
Susan Coughtrie of Foreign Policy Centre & #UK Anti- #SLAPP Coalition
Mari Kapanadze of #Georgian Democracy Initiative Indre Makaraityte of LRT English
Paulina Milewska Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka
🔴LIVE: youtube.com/watch?v=HnuOOD…

Wrapping up Panel 3!
Country initiatives and draft regulation proposals were explored with insights from Susan Coughtrie, Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI)'s Mari Kapanadze, Paulina Milewska, + Indrė Makaraitytė.
Moderated by ARTICLE 19 Europe & Central Asia's Joanna Szymańska

Stay tuned for more thought-provoking discussions!
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Extremely interesting Verfassungsblog post by Paulina Milewska & Zuza Nowicka

May the ECJ be willing to circumscribe mutual recognition from the angle of free speech where (so far) it has been unwilling to do so from the angle of fair trial, as Petra Bárd and I showed on VB earlier?

Check out mine and Zuza Nowicka take on Real Madrid vs Le Monde case at the ECJ and the opinion of AG Maciej Szpunar

Many thanks to our editor Moritz Schramm

Do not hesitate to join us tomorrow on the anti-SLAPP conference in Warsaw! I’ve a pleasure to speak in a panel moderated by Joanna Szymańska from ARTICLE 19 along side with Susan Coughtrie Mati Kapanadze and Indre Makaraityte.

Check out our program: hfhr.pl/aktualnosci/ko…

During the Sejm session next week, the 1st reading of bills about the Constitutional Tribunal will take place.
How do experts assess the changes regarding the Tribunal?
Listen to A. Kustra-Rogatka, M. Ziółkowski, and Jakub Jaraczewski.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs presented Professor Marek Safjan with the Bene Merito honorary badge, which is awarded for activities strengthening Poland's position on the international stage. Photo: Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych RP 🇵🇱

Lawyers, if you cannot contain your primal urge to use Latin, make sure you explain the term in some living language. Well done, ECtHR.

For ⁦Foreign Policy⁩ I wrote about how focus on Netanyahu is a convenient distraction from the fact that the war in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s war, it is Israel’s war.
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The Committee of Ministers of the @CoE adopted today a breakthrough recommendation aimed at countering SLAPPs. Read more: 👇 coe.int/en/web/portal/…

The text of the recommendation: search.coe.int/cm/pages/resul…

🇵🇱 #Poland : IPI joins Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in condemning regulator KRRiT fine against broadcaster tvn24 for documentary on child abuse in the church.

KRRiT overstepped powers to censor uncomfortable journalism. Reform must guarantee regulator independence👇buff.ly/3vjGXcP

Exciting news: our Special Section on Memory laws and the rule of law is out! Working with fabulous co-editor Anna Wójcik was wonderful. Warm thanks to our authors!

🇵🇱⚖️You say that the Polish rule of law crisis is over, but just last week, the neo-National Council of Judiciary discussed a draft application to the Constitutional Tribunal for it to find that Poland is not obliged to implement ECtHR judgments concerning the judiciary. 1/

I have the pleasure of sharing that in May I will spend 10 days deepening my knowledge on constitutional law matters at University of Sydney as a participant of ICON•S summer/winter school organized by prof. Rosalind Dixon.

AVAILABLE NOW🚨Read the new Report 'Press Freedom in Europe: Time to Turn the Tide' !
The Safety of Journalists Platform 2024 Report reviews the main threats to media freedom in Europe. 📖Available here👉go.coe.int/wbdai
#EuropeForFreeMedia #JournalistsMatter