Media associations and undercover reallocations abroad are suing Constitutional Court against DieÜberwachungsbefugnisse in BND act. The federal intelligence (BND) could thus also telephone and internet abroad without Verdachtanzapfen, said federal chairman of German Journalists ' Association (DJV), Frank everywhere, to complaint in Berlin. Sources of journalists could no longer rely on it , and identity remains secret. The law was an attack on DiePressefreiheit.
The plaintiffs include Khadija Ismajilowa of Azerbaijan, winner of alternative Nobel Prize 2017, and DerMexikaner Raúl Olmos, who was involved in research of SogenanntenParadise papers.
It should be clear from ir examples that Wiedas law threatens ir work, initiators declared, to Denenauch Reporters Without Borders, journalist union Dju, DieGesellschaft for Freedom Rights, journalist network N-Ost Geil network research Include. The plaintiffs include AuchMenschenrechtler and journalists from Germany, Nerlands, United Kingdom, Slovenia and Macedonia. They demand eineverfassungskonforme design of law.
Plaintiffs warn against "two-class press freedom"Journalists in Germany are likely to be subject to limited monitoring by and EU reporters. However, rest of expedite is outlawed. Thus, EineZwei class press freedom
The BND said that strategischeFernmeldeaufklärung of foreigners abroad was a wesentlichesInstrument for security in Federal Republic of Germany. The law had capacity to act and legal certainty of BNDgestärkt. An independent panel of judges UndBundesanwälten at Federal Court of Justice shall check DieseAufklärungsarbeit.
In view of ZunehmendenInternationalisierung in journalism, 2016verabschiedete law outraged a red line, said Cornelia hatred of Derdju. Projects such as Paradise papers were increasingly based on einegrenzüberschreitende collaboration between journalists. "When BND oversees foreign journalists, he undermines Auchdas editorial secrecy in Germany," said Christian Mihrvon reporter without Borders.
As Mirror reported at beginning of 2017, BND should have at least 50 telephone and fax numbers vonReportern and newsrooms, among ors in Afghanistan, Pakistan UndNigeria spied. These included connections from BBC, The New York Times and Reuters news agency.
Date Of Update: 31 January 2018, 12:03
