Arbeitstreffen: Von der Mafia bedrohte Journalisten

Liebe Journalistinnen und Journalisten,
Wir von Mafia? Nein, Danke! e.V. planen gemeinsam mit Alberto Spampinato von der italienischen NGO Ossigeno per l’informazione, in einem neuen Projekt Informationen über die Bedrohung von Journalisten durch die Mafia und mafianahe Ambiente zu sammeln. Dabei geht es nicht nur um physische Einschüchterung, sondern auch um rechtliche Probleme, die mit der Berichterstattung über die Mafia in Deutschland verbunden sind, und für die wir Aufmerksamkeit schaffen möchten. Wie dringend das Thema ist, zeigen rechtliche Querelen, die ein bekannter Mafia(-verdächtiger) Gastwirt vor Kurzem gegen den MDR nach einer ihm missliebigen Berichterstattung angestrengt hat.

Wir laden Sie und Euch daher zu einem ersten Arbeitstreffen in Berlin ein,
am 12. April um 14:30 Uhr
in unseren Konferenzraum beim Arbeitskreis Neue Erziehung,
Hasenheide 54, Zweiter Hinterhof, zweiter Stock.
Wir würden uns freuen, Sie und Euch begrüßen zu dürfen und bitten um eine Rückmeldung unter info@mafianeindanke.de. Für Rückfragen erreichen Sie uns unter +49-152-15 25 40 43

Herzliche Grüße,
Sandro Mattioli
Journalist mit Schwerpunkt Mafia und Vorsitzender von Mafia? Nein, Danke! e.V.

Bitte beachten Sie das angehängte Schreiben von Alberto Spampinato:

Dear Colleague,
in my capacity of president of the Italian NGO Ossigeno per l’Informazione and as a member of the European Center for Press and Media Freedom founded in Leipzig together with other partners (between wich Medienstiftung der Sparkasse Leipzig)
in the frame of the project ECPMF financed by the European Union, I am promoting next April 12 a meeting in Berlin in order to talk about a different way to monitor and make public violations of the freedom of expression and the press that occur in Western Countries.

I invite you to participate and to assist us to carry out in the most effective way this task that is assigned to us by the ECPMF 2015 project now underway.
That task is to present to all the journalists’ organisations, to public institutions and to NGOs that defend freedom of expression and the press in Western European countries the impressive results of our monitoring in Italy and gather opinion and suggestion from the audience. Moreover I would like to talk about an hypothesis to apply an experimentation of this method of monitoring threats and intimidations successfully trialled in Italy, or a similar approach.

In Italy, in the last 10 years, this monitoring method has enabled Ossigeno to document the names of 2730 journalists and bloggers affected by these violations, especially by intimidations, threats and abuses effected through a manipulation of legislation, often without incurring any sanctions and without major media commenting upon the nature and dimensions of these episodes.
The partners in ECPMF have asked Ossigeno to make more widely known its unique methodology, recognising that it enables the observation and documentation of violations of press freedom and freedom of expression which often are not highlighted even in Western European countries.

The method, known as the Ossigeno Censorship Detector is a methodical classification and is set out comprehensively in a manual freely available on-line in Italian, French and English.
Ossigeno has already established direct contacts in several European countries in order to organise meetings and exchanges of views. With your help Ossigeno hopes to involve a significant German audience interested in shining a light on this question which has grave consequences for the freedom of information and deserves the same attention reserved for the serious violations which take place in non-democratic countries and in crisis and conflict zones.

Confident of your collaboration, I send my best regards,

Alberto Spampinato
Director of Ossigeno per l’Informazione – Roma
board@ossigeno.info

Download Ossigeno Method of monitoring intimidations against journalists at:

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