Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Admin

Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalists

Letter: press freedom campaigners call for action on ‘vexatious lawsuits’

The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to The Great Hack, a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the abuse of personal data.

Three formally charged in Malta for murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Admin

Trial over anti-corruption journalist’s killing may not take place for years, say experts

Three men have been formally charged over the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese anti-corruption journalist and blogger who was killed by a car bomb in November 2017.

Brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio, and Vincent Muscat, all in their fifties, were arrested in December of that year.

A free press is the lifeblood of democracy – journalists must not be silenced

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Admin

Journalists risk everything to hold power to account, crucial work for which a $1bn global fund should be established

Daphne Caruana Galizia was driving away from her home in October 2017 when a bomb planted under the seat of her car was remotely triggered, killing her instantly.

Caruana Galizia was a renowned anti-corruption journalist who had published damaging revelations about Malta’s prime minister and his political allies. The stories she was working on at the time of her death might have remained unpublished were it not for Forbidden Stories, an initiative run by a global network of investigative journalists whose mission is to finish the work of who have been imprisoned or harmed. The Daphne project, published last year, was a collaborative effort between 45 journalists in 15 countries.

‘Golden visa’ schemes pose risk to EU security, Brussels to say

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Admin

European commission is expected to sound alarm on their use to attract wealthy

Brussels is to warn EU member states that the “golden visa” schemes used by Britain and others to attract the wealthy have exposed the continent to corruption and organised crime.

A report from the the European commission, expected to be published on Wednesday, claims the schemes designed to encourage the super-rich to invest in return for residency rights or citizenship pose a danger to the continent’s security.