Tag: French secret service
IPI condemns arrest of French investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux over ‘Egypt papers’
Pacific Media Watch
The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the arrest and interrogation of French journalist Ariane Lavrilleux and demanded her immediate release. She...
Remembering Rainbow Warrior: How French President Mitterrand personally approved the attack on Greenpeace 20 years ago
Democracy Now!
Twenty years ago on 10 July 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French government agents and sunk in Auckland harbour,...
Archive: A photographer’s date with a nuclear death
President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. And...