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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