@casecoalition.bsky.social
CASE is a coalition of non-governmental organisations from across Europe united in recognition of the threat posed to public watchdogs by Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
✨ Two new initiatives to tackle SLAPPs just launched:
1️⃣ The SLAPP back initiative, from NYU's First Amendment Watch, to track and analyse SLAPPs in the US: firstamendmentwatch.org/introducing-...
2️⃣ SLAPP Watch Coalition Türkiye to monitor, document and analyse SLAPP cases: slappwatchcoalition.com
⚠️ OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media warns of major paradigm shift in information space.
🔴 The report highlights attacks, intimidation, arbitrary detentions of journalists and impunity for perpetrators, and uses data from @casecoalition.bsky.social.
More 👉 rfom.osce.org/representati...
Socfin was a runner up for the 🏆 SLAPP Addict of the Year award 🏆 in @casecoalition.bsky.social's European SLAPP Contest 2025.
Check out their profile in our Gallery of Shame 👉 www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...
Again, Socfin?!
🚨 Socfin has a history of aggressive litigation, having initiated nearly 30 defamation cases against NGOs and journalists over the past decade.
Today Médor reveals they have been a victim of yet another bully lawsuit at their hands 👇
Reminder, among other unfounded accusations, Debucquoy accused the defendant of damaging the reputation of the "entire real estate sector" 🤦
🗞️ Read more in Belgian outlet @tijd.be: www.tijd.be/ondernemen/v...
🎉 Belgian real estate entrepreneur's SLAPP sniffed out by judge.
🧑⚖️ It's a SLAPP! A judge has ruled in favour of the defendant in the abusive lawsuit launched by Joost Debucquoy, flagged by the CASE in September, referring explicitly to SLAPPs in his judgement.
👀👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/its-a...
The rich and powerful continue to use #SLAPPs to silence activists, journalists, and human rights/environmental defenders.
🌍 Join our @europe-calling.bsky.social webinar w/ @greenpeace.org tomorrow to build solidarity and learn how we can resist together.
📝 Sign up: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Explore & share the publications: www.green-armenia.org/en/slapp
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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
🎥 Video testimonies
Check out Tehmine's story 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipjm...
⚠️ Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse.
A new report from @indexoncensorship.org reveals how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...
⚫ 8 years since Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated for her journalism.
Her fight for truth lives on, but so does the threat of SLAPPs, used to silence reporters across Europe.
We continue to work with the @daphne.foundation 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 threatening to sue fellow psychotherapist Leonie O’Dowd over an article in the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/slapp...
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
PLUS:
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.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/from-...
Italian fuel company Fox Petroli is threatening two environmental defenders for calling its Pesaro site "degraded” – language reflecting that of the company's own report.
The multi-million company is demanding the defenders pay €2 million for “reputational damage.”
www.the-case.eu/latest/its-a...
⚠️ IT'S A (DOUBLE) SLAPP!
@casecoalition.bsky.social 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 European Anti-SLAPP Monitor, hosted by ECPMF and developed with the @casecoalition.bsky.social, tracks how governments across Europe are addressing abusive lawsuits.
Explore the Monitor and follow progress of your state here: slapp-monitor.eu
Check out the Anti-SLAPP Monitor developed by @ecpmf.bsky.social and @casecoalition.bsky.social to see who the leaders and laggards are 👉 slapp-monitor.eu
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🌍 Yesterday was International Day of Universal Access to Information… but our #RightToKnow is under threat from SLAPPs.
A right that cannot be safely exercised is no right at all.
European countries have 6 months to implement the EU anti-SLAPP law - we urge them to get it right!
#StopSLAPPs
Yesterday, with the support of @casecoalition.bsky.social, Lëvizja FOL gathered institutions, embassies, journalists & the Anti-SLAPP Coalition in #Kosovo to stress the need for collective action to protect democracy, human rights & free expression.
#StopSLAPPs
🔴 Global press freedom hits 50-year low.
A new report from @internationalidea.bsky.social 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.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
🖐️ It's a SLAPP!
🚨 @casecoalition.bsky.social officially recognises Joost Debucquoy’s €1.2M lawsuit against non-profit groups Samen Sterk ! & Erfpacht as a SLAPP – designed to silence those exposing the injustice of his family’s real estate schemes.
👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/its-a...
#StopSLAPPs
🚨 Launching the European Anti-SLAPP Monitor!
Developed by @ecpmf.bsky.social & @casecoalition.bsky.social, 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.
👉 Go to: slapp-monitor.eu
✊While the judge deliberates, we stand in solidarity with @greenpeace.org, and with all those facing SLAPPs.
We will not be silenced by corporate bullies.
#StopSLAPPs #TimeToResist
⚠️ ET has asked a North Dakota judge for an unprecedented “anti-suit injunction” to block the EU law. If granted, it would undermine protections for EU citizens and free speech, and break with international legal principles.
22.08.2025 08:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0💥 Why is a multibillion-dollar fossil fuel pipeline giant getting so nervous?
After back-to-back lawsuits against Greenpeace in the US, Energy Transfer is now trying to shield itself from Europe’s new anti-SLAPP law. #StopSLAPPs
www.greenpeace.org/internationa....
🔴 Red flag: Albania's new draft law makes "mockery" of politicians a crime, with penalties of up to three years in prison.
The law's vague terms leave it open to interpretation and prone to abuse, with huge risks for journalists, activists and citizens.
#StopSLAPPs
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the...
🏆 Earlier this year, we exposed some of the worst abusers of the legal system with the European SLAPP Contest
📺 Watch as Energy Transfer receives the International Bully of the Year award after SLAPP-ing @greenpeace.org with a nine-figure bully lawsuit 👇 #StopSLAPPs
www.youtube.com/shorts/5vEtP...
