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France – Pierre Veilletet, former chairman of Reporters Without Borders France, dies aged 69
It is with great sadness that Reporters Without Borders learned of the death yesterday of the former president of its French section, Pierre Veilletet, at the age of 69. For many years Pierre was engaged in the press freedom organization’s battles. He had been a member of its board since it was founded and chaired the French section from 2003 to 2009. Born on 2 October 1943 in Momuy in the Landes department of south-west France, he began his career with the daily Sud-Ouest in 1968 and (…)
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France – Digital Council asks Sarkozy to be consulted about any terrorist website law
Reporters Without Borders approves of a request by the National Digital Council (CNN) to President Nicolas Sarkozy to be consulted about any draft legislation based on his 22 March proposal that “habitually” visiting websites that “advocate terrorism or call for hatred and violence” should be a criminal offence (read Reporters Without Borders press release). The CNN made its request in a letter to the president on 23 March voicing concern about the proposal and stressing that fundamental (…)
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France – Threat from use of Internet surveillance to combat terrorism
Reporters Without Borders is worried by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal yesterday that “any person who habitually consults websites that advocate terrorism or call for hatred and violence” should be criminally punished. Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech on 22 March 2012 (in French) – Watch around 2’00 “We do not in any way defend violent or terrorist websites, but we think that the president’s statement was made in the heat of the moment and went after the wrong target by focusing on the Internet,” (…)
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Turkey – After victory for free speech in France, Turkey’s turn next?
Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Council that a proposed law punishing the “denial of legally recognized genocides” is unconstitutional. It had been on the verge of being signed into law by President Sarkozy. “We are pleased that freedom of expression has not been sacrificed to a cause, no matter how just the cause may be,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The dangerous breach opened by this law has been closed for the time being but it has already damaged (…)
France – Reporters Without Borders profoundly shocked by arson attack on satirical weekly
Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the firebomb attack that devastated the premises of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris in the early hours of yesterday. “It is extremely worrying to note that in France there are individuals who are prepared to lash out in such a violent manner against a newspaper for making use of its freedom of expression. Reacting in this way only serves to increase tension and ignorance of all kinds,” said Jean-François Julliard, (…)
France – WikiLeaks cable on progress of Internet piracy bill in France
09PARIS559 A cable from the US embassy in Paris dated 24 April 2009, which WikiLeaks released on 26 August, describes a trick played by opposition Socialist Party parliamentarians earlier that month to delay approval of the government’s Internet piracy law (known as HADOPI), under which users can be denied Internet access after three piracy offences. Ten Socialist Party parliamentarians hid behind a curtain in the near-empty chamber and emerged just as the the bill came up for a vote, (…)
