US EditionCourt Attacks and Defunding NGOs: a Growing Pattern of Silencing Protest in Europe
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Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe
This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put into action.
Greenpeace International ecologists have pioneered a pioneering legal case that puts the new European Union legislation to the test to protect freedom of expression and stop abusive lawsuits. In this regard, the organisation has filed a lawsuit against the US pipeline company Energy Transfer in the courts of the Netherlands, while other environmental organisations in some fortnight of European countries urge their respective governments to trans…
Greenpeace International is fighting a US$667 million fine imposed this year by a US court on various branches of the environmental organisation in the Netherlands. The case can be heard in the Dutch courts because the international branch of the action group is based here. As far as is known, it is the first case in Europe to make use of a new European directive that protects NGOs, journalists and activists from intimidating and disproportionat…
Greenpeace file first lawsuit under new EU anti-SLAPP rules
The trial of Energy Transfer starts today, July 2, in the Netherlands, where Greenpeace seeks justice by invoking the EU's new anti-SLAPP directive for the first time.Topics: News, Tribune, Opinion, Greenpeace, The NetherlandsRead full article
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