On August 4th a campaign concerned with the protection of journalists has been launched by the international organization Reporters without Borders. According to the European Federation of Journalists´ (EFJ) blog, the EFJ has joined an international alliance of human-rights organizations, journalist associations and media representatives to protect foreign journalists from surveillance by the German Federal Intelligence Agency (Bundesnachrichtendienst – BND).

The campaign aims to include a clause in the revised BND law to protect journalists. The EFJ blog post states that the signatories of the appeal consider the global mass surveillance by the BND to be a violation of human rights. Furthermore, the signatories of the appeal regard the surveillance of foreign journalists in particular as a serious encroachment on press freedom worldwide.

More information about the petition [here]