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   Meron Estefanos (meron@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 23:51:25 JST Meron Estefanos

   Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) - The Society of Civil Rights - have filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against Germany for its Federal Intelligence Service Act (BND Act).

   https://rsf.org/en/rsf-and-gff-file-complaint-against-germany-and-its-federal-intelligence-service-act-european-court

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     Meron Estefanos (meron@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 23:51:23 JST Meron Estefanos

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     In the opinion of RSF and GFF, the German foreign intelligence service violates several fundamental human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Following the provisions of the ECHR and the Court's case law, intelligence gathering must have precisely identifiable objectives and may only be used for specific purposes, confidentiality relationships between media professionals and their sources require special protection.

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     Meron Estefanos (meron@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 23:51:24 JST Meron Estefanos

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     The organisations are reacting to inadequate reforms to the law, which does not take sufficient account of the necessary protection of media professionals. The decision could be a landmark judgement that would not only have an impact on the legal situation in Germany, but also trigger legal upgrades in all member states of the Council of Europe.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.