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🌍🔍 Our member Green Armenia has launched “Advancing Anti-SLAPP Measures in Armenia” — exposing lawsuits used to silence #EnvironmentalDefenders, journalists, and civic activists. 📄 SLAPP Report 🗂️ Cases database 🎥 Testimonies Tehmine's story 👇 https://t.co/8w6BLMCdwX

⚠️ Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. A new report from @IndexCensorship reveals how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out ⬇️ https://t.co/ertZp8XADu

⚫ 8 years since Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated for her journalism Her fight for truth lives on, but so does the threat of SLAPPs, to silence reporters across Europe We continue to work with the @daphnefdtn to #StopSLAPPs and protect press freedom #JusticeForDaphne

If clinicians and academics can’t critique approaches to mental health treatment without fearing lawsuits, how can we have honest, evidence-based discussion in psychotherapy & healthcare? 🤐 SLAPPs don’t win arguments, they just silence them. #StopSLAPPs #AcademicFreedom

📚 O’Dowd’s piece was a professional critique - the kind of contribution journals exist to foster. Moreover, it was taken down immediately after O’Malley complained... 👀 Yet instead of moving on, O’Malley pressed ahead with legal threats, demanding damages and costs.

👋 It’s a SLAPP! 🤔 Why debate when you can silence with a lawsuit? Stella O’Malley and her organisation Genspect are doing just this in suing psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over her article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy. 👀👉 https://t.co/FJVOLpRZbx

An attack on one is an attack on all. We won’t stay silent – no matter how deep their pockets or how dirty their tactics. 📣 Show solidarity with those targeted by SLAPPs: like, share, and help us make some noise. #StopSLAPPs

Energy company TAQA has SLAPP-ed a former employee after he refused to participate in practices he believed violated labour and immigration law. Their cease-and-desist letter sought to prohibit the target from discussing the matter, even “in private.” https://t.co/DOFQFZw19q

Italian fuel company Fox Petroli is threatening two environmental defenders for calling its Pesaro site "degraded” – language similar to that used by the company. It is now demanding the community activists pay €2 million for “reputational damage.” https://t.co/VrCDqvc3mv

⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP! @CASECoalition has verified TWO new SLAPPs, both concerning Italian citizens who tried to raise their voices for the public good. 📣 Italy - where are your SLAPP protections? 👀 #StopSLAPPs

The 🇪🇺EU in Kosovo's #RoL Head Jarmo Helppikangas joined tdy @FOLMovement - part of the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) - and 🇽🇰's Group Against #SLAPPs mtg. He welcomed 🇽🇰 efforts to integrate #EU's & @coe's anti-SLAPP instruments into legislation, stressing urgency.

🔴 Global press freedom hits 50-year low. A new report from @Int_IDEA shows press freedom has declined in a quarter of the 174 countries studied. Strong anti-SLAPP laws are needed in addition to other protections to reverse this trend. #StopSLAPPs https://t.co/9iEyKQg9rG

🖐️ It's a SLAPP! 🚨 @CASECoalition officially recognises Joost Debucquoy’s €1.2M lawsuit against non-profits @SamenSterkVzw & Erfpacht vzw as a SLAPP – designed to silence those exposing the injustice of his family’s real estate schemes. 👉 https://t.co/5tBoT7x8tb #StopSLAPPs

🚨 Launching the European Anti-SLAPP Monitor! Developed by @ECPMF & @CASECoalition, the tool shows how countries across Europe are rolling out anti-SLAPP protections – where progress is happening, where it’s stalled, and where more work is needed. 👉 https://t.co/Iyi2a7Tq7e

🏆 Earlier this year, we exposed Europe's worst legal bullies with the European SLAPP Contest These lawsuits are not about justice, they seek to silence to criticism 🔇 Watch Energy Transfer receive the International Bully of the Year award👇 #StopSLAPPs https://t.co/sX3E0eFKSw

🎭 The powerful use SLAPPs to silence voices and save face. But we won’t be quiet. There’s a growing movement ready to expose those using bully lawsuits. ▶️ Watch oil giant ENI receive the highly coveted SLAPP Addict of the Year Award 🏆👇 #StopSLAPPs #EuropeanSLAPPContest

Last week, 40+ orgs across 15 countries took action to #StopSLAPPs. 📢 Activists and organisations called on governments to pass strong anti-SLAPP laws. We stand with @Greenpeace in their anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer. #HandsOffOurSpeech https://t.co/ZqWAytKdCo

SLAPPs are bully lawsuits designed to silence criticism. They are becoming more and more popular globally as a way of the rich and powerful silencing those who dare to speak out in the public good. Learn more:

⏰ Europe promised protection from abusive lawsuits – but most governments haven’t delivered. 💸😶 Meanwhile, billionaires are still suing to shut down protest and public-interest reporting. ❗ We need national laws that put people before profit. #TimetoResist #StopSLAPPs