Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Chris Myant started as a journalist in 1968 working for the Morning Star and then 7Days. He later worked for the Commission for Racial Equality and Equality and Human Rights Commission. For the last decade he has lived in Paris where he is active in the National Union of Journalists.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?War of images in ParisLike the Gilets jaunes the authorities hope to grind this coalition down by police intimidation, scare stories of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Winning trust in the Fifth Republic: an uphill struggleFrom vaccines to cuts, benefits, low wages, policing and the environment, how is growing skepticism and gathering...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The questions that must be asked in Paris today“ The capital had offered two buildings, large enough to give emergency accommodation for all, if the central...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Public order in Human Rights Square“What mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, did add was that, as things are at the moment, France could well end up with a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France: when police intimidation is in the frameIf this bill passes into law, good journalism will become harder still. But so will the chances of being a good cop.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France’s 1984General Lizurey’s report is still not available publicly on his own ministry’s website, that of the Ministry of the Interior.