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Thousands of demonstrators take to the snowy Paris streets to protest against a controversial security bill that would limit filming of the police. Critics say it will make it harder for journalists and citizens to document cases of police brutality. IMAGES
The EU is to better protect journalists from political interference under an unprecedented media freedom law adopted by the European Parliament. The legislation, backed in a vote by 464 EU lawmakers, with 92 against and 65 abstaining, also enshrines editorial independence and seeks to improve transparency on media ownership. IMAGES
Paris, Apr 20 (EFE).-Journalism is "completely or partly blocked" in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed for the World Press Freedom Index, the annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday. (Camera: MARIO GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE RSF OFFICE IN PARIS, WITH A WORLD MAP OF PRESS FREEDOM IN 2021.SOUND BITES: SECRETARY GENERAL OF REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE (IN FRENCH).TRANSLATIONS:1. "At a time when disinformation, rumors, invitations to hatred spread through social networks, at a time when journalism is the best vaccine against these evils, in 73% of countries, this vaccine is blocked. "2. "The closure of access to journalists, which has become a daily thing. For legitimate or non-legitimate reasons, journalists are deprived of the access they had before. Access to the land, to sources, because it is not always possible carry out investigative journalism by videoconference. "3. "Unfortunately, this closure corresponds to a historical evolution, to a greater weight of public relations and communication services. Some take advantage of having a means of closing the doors to journalists to increase their communication and close in themselves. That would be very harmful, because it would favor institutional communication to the detriment of independent journalistic information. "4. "Latin America in general and South America in particular is the continent where there has been the greatest degradation of press freedom this year, especially because of Covid. It is a continent where several heads of state, Maduro in Velezuela, Bolsonaro in Brazil, have spread false information, including information about the pandemic and how to treat it and have accused journalists of spreading false information."
Paris , Mar 16 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yoan Valat) Protesters gathered in front of the French Senate in Paris to protest against the so-called 'Global Security Law, of which critics have warned that the project of law would be a danger to the freedom of the press.FOTTAGE OF THE PROTEST IN PARIS.
Paris, March 6 (EFE), (Camera: Antonio Torres del Cerro/Martí Rodríguez).- A new law in defence of secularism that is being presented in the French Parliament has exposed the wounds of a society traumatized by the Islamist terror attacks. FOOTAGE OF THE Great Mosque of Montreuil AND OF THE TOWN OF MONTREUIL. INCLUDES SOUNDBITES OF: -FARID SLIM, IMAM:"Acts of terrorism are an act of disorder that has nothing to do with religion. Today we are going to find a series of unbalanced people who are going to seek legitimacy for their actions under the pretext of religion. This is how we have seen it with the massacre in Norway, with more than 70 deaths at the hands of a Christian fanatic."-SABINE THILLAYE, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY:"We could not focus on a single cult, but we had to pay attention to financing, to see where the financing of some comes from, the associations, forcing them precisely to have a letter of principles (republicans), to have a sort control over what it is happening, especially when we talk about sports clubs with young people. An important issue is also home instruction."
France's National Assembly adopts a controversial bill against Islamist "separatism",which has been criticised for stigmatising Muslims and giving the state new powers to limit speech and religious groups. IMAGES
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