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Rights groups denounce Austrian Ibizagate whistleblower trial

Julian Hessenthaler filmed Austria’s then-Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache appearing to offer to trade government contracts for campaign help.

Criminal charges against the whistleblower whose leak of the “Ibizagate” video took down Austria’s government in 2019 will discourage other informants and may breach media freedoms, multiple NGOs…

  • Liv Klingert
  • Politico

Fifteen Austrian and international organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, Amnesty International and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, expressing “considerable concerns” over the trial of Julian…

A court last week found former Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, the…

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