{"id":90695,"date":"2022-12-03T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/?p=90695"},"modified":"2022-12-03T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T13:33:07","slug":"lawsuit-against-bivol-in-greece-over-article-about-the-badr-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/lawsuit-against-bivol-in-greece-over-article-about-the-badr-tanker.html","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit against Bivol in Greece over article about the Badr tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lawsuits against the investigative reporting outlet Bivol were among the cases discussed at the\u00a0 <em>New Horizons in Journalism<\/em> international conference, hosted by the\u00a0World Press Institute and the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) on 1 December 2022 in Sofia. Bivol&#8217;s lawyer Alexander Kashamov informed the international audience that in addition to the 1 million BGN claim against us, there is now another lawsuit, constituting yet another attack against freedom of speech in Bulgaria.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two lawsuits against Bivol qualify as examples of what has become known by the English abbreviation SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation), the human rights legal expert explained. Alexander Kashamov, who represents Bivol in court, is also head of the legal team at the Access to Information Programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The discussion panel on SLAPP as an attack against press freedom was moderated by Maria Cheresheva, vice president of AEJ Bulgaria. Among the panelists were also Flutura Kusari, senior legal advisor at the European Centre for Press and |Media Freedom, Lora Georgieva, coordinator of the law programme at the Anti-Corruption Fund, and Mediapool editor-in-chief Stoyana Georgieva.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Faej.bulgaria%2Fposts%2Fpfbid096E68JdS9Nwt1QiSV6AXYm5RjYMbqETQZM2riSRcJGJ3okfakTEEvitonJtEZD8al&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"584\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Lawsuits against Bivol, Mediapool and Capital<\/h1>\n<p>\u201cPowrful interests are working to bend public opinion, control the narrative and pressure journalists through scare tactics such as lawsuits against public participation,\u201d AEJ observed in view of the need for a debate on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Kashamov presented examples of legal attacks against Bulgarian media through SLAPP, focusing on three specific cases \u2013 the lawsuits against Bivol, Mediapool and Capital.<\/p>\n<p>The legal expert also recapped last year&#8217;s dicussion on SLAPPs at an event hosted by the European Parliament, where there were two ceses of \u201cbad news\u201d from Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wbEvISDoTA\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/%ef%bb%bflies-and-guilty-silence-of-ministry-of-interior-about-badr.html\">\ufeffLies and Guilty Silence of Ministry of Interior about BADR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;\ufeffLies and Guilty Silence of Ministry of Interior about BADR&#8221; &#8212; Bivol.bg\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/%ef%bb%bflies-and-guilty-silence-of-ministry-of-interior-about-badr.html\/embed#?secret=wbEvISDoTA\" data-secret=\"wbEvISDoTA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cOne of them was Mediapool being sentenced to pay 60 000 BGN, and the other \u2013 a lawsuit against Bivol filed by Eurohold.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bivol case is a 2021 claim from the leading insurance company in Bulgaria, seeking 1 million BGN in compensation for non-material damages for having been mentioned in publications. It was put forward as a partial claim for the initial amount of 50 000 BGN.<\/p>\n<h1>New SLAPP case against Bivol<\/h1>\n<p>It turns out there is now another piece of bad news for freedom of speech in Bulgaria, this time involving a complicated legal procedure. In the summer of 2022 another SLAPP case against Bivol was initiated in Greece but some of the investigation work was delegated to the Bulgarian Public Prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The case involves a Bivol publication from a few years ago, one of a series of investigations into the hijacking of the Lybian tanker Badr. A party implicated in the investigation complained to the Greek court that one of the published documents contained their perosnal data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WQ0JhbgMwp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-interior-ministry-sacks-policeman-who-hijacked-libyan-tanker.html\">Bulgarian Interior Ministry Sacks Policeman Who Hijacked Libyan Tanker<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bulgarian Interior Ministry Sacks Policeman Who Hijacked Libyan Tanker&#8221; &#8212; Bivol.bg\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/bulgarian-interior-ministry-sacks-policeman-who-hijacked-libyan-tanker.html\/embed#?secret=WQ0JhbgMwp\" data-secret=\"WQ0JhbgMwp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThe other court case against Bivol is an obvious revenge attempt for an investigation they carried out a few years ago, as a result of which a tanker vessel was arrested on the Bulgarian coast\u201d,<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Alexander Kashamov <\/strong>explained.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that &#8216;the boomerang&#8217; against Bivol was now coming back from Greece. Because someone found out that a ruling by the Greek court, which Bivol had published, contained actual personal data of the suspect, Kashamov explained.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why the Greek suspect never directly responded to the publication of their personal data in the article and never asked Bivol to remove it. Instead they waited for several years and only then, when the case was all but forgotten, took their complaint directly to the court.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1170\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Q4xybBn9ZA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kashamov pointed out that Greece is a rare example of a EU country in which publishing personal data is a criminal offence: \u201cThey initiated criminal proceedings and delegated the collection of evidence to the Bulgarian public procecution, which is only too happy to be able to investigate Bivol.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cTo their misfortune Bulgaria has not criminalised the violation of regulations regarding the protection of personal data\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alexander Kashamov further explained that in this situation the Greek authorities and the Bulgarian procecution were using EU directives on transborder cooperation in the area of criminal justice. \u201cThis is now a court trial that is pending,\u201d the legal expert explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2t7mazt1xa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/not-pirates-but-corsairs-who-hijacked-libyan-tanker-badr.html\">Not Pirates But Corsairs: Who Hijacked Libyan Tanker BADR?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Not Pirates But Corsairs: Who Hijacked Libyan Tanker BADR?&#8221; &#8212; Bivol.bg\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/not-pirates-but-corsairs-who-hijacked-libyan-tanker-badr.html\/embed#?secret=2t7mazt1xa\" data-secret=\"2t7mazt1xa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the lawsuits against Bivol are still ongoing, we can not reveal any more detail but we will provide all of it to attorney Kashamov who is our legal representative on both cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Bivol investigative reporting team is asking our readers to <a href=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/tax?fbclid=IwAR2DkQi2gGfbTSiDR0_bv4LwyJ2txQhibAKhhdEsCkuqntAG4efimnITzpE\">make donations<\/a> so that we can cover our expenses on these scandalous lawsuits and so that we are able to continue to exist in general, carrying on with our work of exposing corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuits against the investigative reporting outlet Bivol were among the cases discussed at the\u00a0 New Horizons in Journalism international conference, hosted by the\u00a0World Press Institute and the Association of European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20614,"featured_media":90522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","kia_subtitle":"Court cases against our publication discussed at conference hosted by Word Press Institute and Association of European Journalists","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[5806,5550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leading-en","category-short-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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