Amendment No. 17 | Doc. 13664 | 28 January 2015

Protection of media freedom in Europe

Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media

Origin - 2015 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 2, insert the following paragraph:

"The Assembly recalls that political criticism and satire must be protected as an essential part of media freedom. Freedom of expression is applicable not only to information or ideas that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the state or any sector of the population, subject only to the conditions and restrictions foreseen in the European Convention on Human Rights."