Today, we had another chilling effect incident during a trial on a public interest affair. In particular, a reporter was asked to exit the room in the middle of the hearing (1) #slapp #stopslapps
under confusing justifications. The in force protocols for Courthouses define a maximum of 15 people per room and in certain cases of increased public interest such as corruption cases, the Judges have decided in advance to either accept a small number of reporters or no at all
but have published their decision in advance and have proposed alternatives to ensure protection of rights connected to reporting from this type of trials. Today, the only reporter (who has been following the case for a while now) was asked to exit the room
following a request from the lawyers of the respondents. I'm unaware of whether the reporter's behaviour irritated the Judges (highly doubt so) however it's an impressive action against a series of constitutionally granted freedoms and rights.
Fun fact, in countries like Sweden and Norway whenever cases of public interest reach the stand their national unions call for the journalists to follow up on the cases and you get to read a variety of standpoints, which is impressive! Well, live your #slapp myth in GR!
Fyi, chilling effect is an action or series of attempting to intimidate a person from publishing a trigger warning piece, speaking up against certain status quo etc. Its mostly in the edge of legal or not, but it's always immoral. #stopslapps
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