Debate of the day

Journalists and whistleblowers: do we need to protect them more?

Audio 29:30

Demonstration in front of the Palace of Justice in Luxembourg, on April 26, 2016, in support of whistleblower Antoine Deltour.

(Illustrative image) AFP - JOHN THYS

By: Romain Auzouy

This Wednesday, April 27, 2022, the European Commission presented a proposal to fight against gag procedures targeting journalists or whistleblowers.

An appellation that brings together all the legal actions that end up exhausting, or even reducing to silence, whistleblowers.

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The latter whose protection has been enhanced in France via a law adopted in March 2022: is this enough?

How far should this protection go?

How to harmonize the situations?

A question that echoes the case of Julian Assange, whose extradition to the United States was authorized last week by British justice.

With our guests: 

- Pauline Delmas

, advocacy officer for the House of whistleblowers and legal expert 

- Me Jean-Marc Fedida

, lawyer 

- Marine Martin

, whistleblower on the risks of Dépakine. 

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