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1 November 2012

Spain: Journalists Fined After Revealing Corruption in Catalonia

Written by Violeta Camarasa · Translated by Global Voices · Advocacy, Arrest and Harassment, Feature, Freedom of Expression, News, Threatened Voices

Marta Sibina and Albano Dante, editors of the citizen media magazine Cafè amb Llet, have been fined 10,000 euro for libel. They uploaded to YouTube a video strongly criticizing the lack of transparency in public healthcare financing in Catalonia, implicating Josep Maria Via, president of Barcelona MAR Health Park Consortium and healthcare advisor to Catalan President Artur Mas.

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10 March 2011

Spanish intellectual property law and global netfreedom

Written by Leila Nachawati · Europe, Feature, Law, Regulation

Many of the challenges and threats that Egyptians, Tunisians or Libyans are facing are global and affect civil societies as a whole. Among these is the threat against the Internet...

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9 December 2010

Net Neutrality, Spain and Wikileaks

Written by Juan Arellano · Translated by Marco Veliz · Advocacy, Feature, Languages, Law, Regulation

Previously, we’ve touched on the the topic of net neutrality , especially neutrality in Spain. Since last September, when Telefonica proposed to Spain’s Telecommunications Market Comission, to eliminate their flat fee and establish 3 tiers of service varying from quality and user’s data usage, things have been moving along.

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13 September 2010

Telefónica Spain and Net Neutrality

Written by Juan Arellano · Europe, Feature, Regulation

Spanish Bloggers are once again discussing net neutrality, but this time the focus is not on the Google-Verizon´s agreement and their policy offer in the U.S, but on something much...

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