SLAPP Proof: Awareness & Information Video on SLAPPs

PRESS RELEASE: Athens, 18 March 2025

The Hellenic League for Human Rights and the investigative journalism team The Manifold, as part of the “SLAPP Proof” project, are releasing today an awareness and information video about abusive SLAPP lawsuits.

Watch the video and learn how SLAPP lawsuits restrict the right to freedom of expression and access to information while discouraging public participation.

 

Contributors:

Interviews: Mariniki Alevizopoulou, Avgoustinos Zenakos, Maria Sidiropoulou

Direction/Cinematography/Editing: Maria Sidiropoulou

Production: The Manifold

We would like to thank Efimerida ton Syntakton and DIAS Printing S.A. for providing the space used during filming.

 

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The “SLAPP Proof” project is implemented in the framework of the BUILD programme by the Hellenic League for Human Rights as a project promoter and The Manifold as a partner. BUILD is co-funded by the European Union, through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme, the Bodossaki Foundation and the Cyprus NGO Support Centre.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency or the Bodossaki Foundation. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.