{"id":2580,"date":"2020-01-27T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:01:40","slug":"letter-to-commissioner-jourova-on-slapp-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/democracy-europe\/2580\/letter-to-commissioner-jourova-on-slapp-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Commissioner Jourov\u00e1 on SLAPP lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>27 organisations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/20200127-Letter-to-Commissioner-Jourova-SLAPP-lawsuits.pdf\">wrote<\/a> to Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1 calling on her to include all those impacted by SLAPP lawsuits in proposed new rules.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large  caption-style-blue-overlay caption-alignment-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/e80602d0-gp0stqubo_medium_res_with_credit_line.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are used by the rich and powerful to tie critics up in expensive legal procedures and ultimately silence them. SLAPPs are often used to silence journalists and media organisations, but also activists, NGOs, trade unions and others. We are calling on Commissioner Jourov\u00e1 to protect everyone currently targeted by SLAPPs.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2020\/01\/20200127-Letter-to-Commissioner-Jourova-SLAPP-lawsuits.pdf\">Read the full letter here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 organisations wrote to Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1 calling on her to include all those impacted by SLAPP lawsuits in proposed new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,33],"p4-page-type":[19],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democracy-europe","tag-democracy","tag-justice","p4-page-type-letter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}