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Chisinau hosted a regional reunion of Press Councils on the topic of presumption of innocence and the right to private life in mass-media
Representatives of Press Councils from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine held a recent common meeting in Chisinau for debating and sharing experience on the topic associated to observance of presumption of innocence and the right to private life in mass-media. The encounter began with the ordinary sitting of Republic of Moldova Press Council, allowing the representatives of journalistic self-regulatory structures from other countries to take notice of the practices employed for examining complaints against mass-media institutions in our country. Further on, each participant presented specific incidents of infringing the deontology principles (presumption of innocence and right to private life) by mass-media institutions in their country, complaints filed by mass-media product consumers, decisions adopted by the Press Council and their impact. The participants jointly examined those specific cases and exchanged opinions as regards the modalities to enhance self-regulatory efficiency in the field of mass-media. The reunion was attended as well by the expert of the Council of Europe, Ioana Avădani, director of the Independent Journalism Center in Romania, who came forth with similar examples from Romania as well as with European recommendations on the observance of presumption of innocence and the right to private life by mass-media. The representatives...