Cliquez ici si vous ne visualisez pas ce message correctement ([link removed])
[link removed]
[link removed]
Dear Friends,

Eighteen months after reporter Giorgos Karaivaz’s murder and at the height of a scandal about arbitrary spying on two Greek journalists by the Greek intelligence agency involving use of the Predator spyware, I went to Athens to initiate a dialogue with the authorities.

At a meeting with the deputy minister to the prime minister, I proposed legal reforms to protect journalists, in particular, to regulate surveillance on "national security" grounds more tightly and to address the lack of safeguards against surveillance abuses. In response to my request for legislation, Ioannis Oikonomou gave an undertaking that the government will “soon propose a law to make the use of spyware illegal.”

Greece is ranked lower than any other European Union country in RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index – 108th out of 180 countries. The authorities must take urgent steps to protect media personnel against arbitrary surveillance and to render justice for the April 2021 murder of Giorgos Karaivaz, a journalist who specialised in investigating crime. We will be watching.

Support the actions we take to defend journalistic freedom, independence and pluralism in Europe.

MAKE A DONATION ([link removed])

Thanks for your support.
-
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS (RSF)
Pavol Szalai, Head of the EU and Balkans desk.

============================================================
** Website ([link removed])
** Twitter ([link removed])
** Facebook ([link removed])
** Instagram ([link removed])
** Make a donation on donate.rsf.org ([link removed])

Copyright © 2022 Reporters sans frontières, All rights reserved.
Vous recevez cet email en tant qu'abonné à la newsletter RSF.
** Unsubscribe here ([link removed])
.