Press Complaints Commission: United Kingdom

Press Complaints Commission: United Kingdom

The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites). The Press Complaints Commission is charged with enforcing the Code of Practice which was framed by the newspaper and periodical industry and was ratified by the PCC in September 2009. 

As it is clear that there was extensive coverage in the British media regarding the McCann's success in achieving a temporary ban on "The Truth of the Lie"; it is also apparent that there is now a responsibility by these same organisations to inform the British public about the Lisbon Appeals Court ruling overturning the ban on "The Truth of the Lie".

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Press Council of Ireland / Press Ombudsman: Complaints

Please feel free to use the information HERE should you decide to complain to the Irish Press Ombudsman regarding the apparent news blackout regarding the Lisbon Appeals Court decision to overturn the ban on "The Truth of the Lie".

Note that the Irish Examiner, the Irish Independent and the Irish News gave extensive coverage to the McCanns battle to censor "The Truth of the Lie".  These three papers have not (to date) reported the ruling to overturn the ban.  (Contact details are at the end of this post.)

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case, The Truth of the Lie

Thoughts ...

After acquainting myself with everything I could learn about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, trying to study the files released by the Portuguese PJ, watching video interviews, reading every news article I had time to read, I knew that there was something quite wrong with the story told by Madeleine's parents and their friends.  So much has been already said about that, all over the internet there are people, like me, expressing the reasons why - there is no need to go into that here and now.

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Censorship, DISGRACED, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Keystone cops, The Truth of the Lie

Will the British Media continue to suppress the truth?

Lisbon Appeals Court Ruling ENGLISH TRANSLATION
24 October 2010
Joana Morais Blog
Translation by "Astro"

Definition of suppress: 

"Keep from public knowledge by various means"

Press Complaints Commission

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Criminal Record: 'Kate McCann in Praia da Luz ('Companhia das Manhãs)

TRANSLATION ON JOANA MORAIS BLOG

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Suppressing the truth: BBC

The BBC cannot claim to have not been unaware of the decision by the Appeals Court of Lisbon to lift the ban on "A Verdade da Mentira" / "Maddie – The Truth of the Lie".

They covered the litigation in depth and clearly reported the original banning of the book in a number of articles and videos.

Therefore there is simply no excuse for the BBC not informing the British public of the Appeals Court judges rulings to lift the ban on the book.

Not only has the ruling been reported in Portugal, internationally and in other British papers, citizens have also made numerous complaints to the BBC requesting an explanation for their silence in regard to the Appeals Court decision in favor of Goncalo Amaral.

Until such time the BBC informs its readers/viewers about current developments, it can only be concluded that the BBC is intentionally suppressing the truth and intentionally leading the British public to believe that Goncalo Amaral's book remains off the shelves.

There can be no other explanation for their silence regarding the Appeals Court decision.

The BBC have a public duty to impartially report FACTS. This is a clear violation of that duty.

***COVERAGE OF THE TEMPORARY BAN (EXAMPLES):***

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, BBC, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Portugal anula la prohibición del libro sobre Madeleine; El comisario luso que investigó la desaparición de la menor sostiene en él que sus padres están implicados; Desaparecida desde 2007
21 October 2010
Diario de Mallorca
Spanish

Portugal cancels ban on Madeleine's book, The Luso commissioner who investigated the disappearance of the minor argues in it that parents are involved, Missing since 2007 A Portuguese court today overturned the ban on sales of the book on the Madeleine case by former commissioner who investigated, Gonçalo Amaral, which relates to the British girl's parents with their hypothetical death.

The lawyer for the parents of Madeleine McCann, Elizabeth Duarte, told Reuters the decision, contrary to the claim filed by its customers, today issued the Industrial Relations Court of Lisbon after an appeal by Amaral.

The girl's mother, Kate McCann considers "incredible" this court decision, said the lawyer, who is studying to see the possible measures to adopt.

Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007 in southern Portugal and parents organized a global media campaign to find her, but suggests in his book Amaral, appeared a year later, the girl could have died accidentally and the body was hidden. The work, "Maddie, the truth lies," was suspended as a precautionary measure on September 9, 2009 and the prohibition of sale in Portugal, also extended to translations in other countries, was confirmed on 18 February when Lisbon Civil Court found in favor of the complaint for defamation and damage which had brought the parents.

The pair of British doctors, paving and other legal action against Amaral claim for compensation for the impact of his book, disagrees with this new ruling, his lawyer said.

The former inspector, who took early retirement following this case failed to prove the involvement of parents in the alleged disappearance of the girl by the Portuguese Attorney General, which closed the investigation on July 21, 2008 and acquitted the McCanns of the suspicions against them formal. 

The couple always defended his innocence and accused Amaral not only have made them a great moral damage, but have hampered with his accusations, the search for the girl. 

Last May, with the third anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, the McCanns reappeared in several European television channels and print media to insist that they believe their daughter alive and seeking help to find it. 

The girl disappeared while she slept with two smaller twins in a holiday apartment in Playa de la Luz in the Algarve while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with a group of friends.

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Ultimately there is democracy

Decisão de anular
20 October 2010
Açoriano Oriental
Portuguese
LUSA

The former Inspector of Judicial Police (PJ (Goncalo Amaral found yesterday that the decision of the Court of Appeal to annul the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" means "the strengthening of Portuguese democracy."

Gonçalo Amaral is pleased that "ultimately there is democracy," and confessed to the agency Lusa that he hoped the judges of Appeal reversed the decision of Lisbon Civil Court to prohibit the sale of the book after an injunction filed by the parents of Madeleine McCann.

"The book is an exercise of citizenship and freedom of expression. Relationship With this decision, it was the Portuguese who won democracy, as the ban on the sale of the book was unconstitutional," said Goncalo Amaral Lusa.

The former PJ inspector still classified as "very important" decision of the ratio for the two cases brought by the parents of British girl who disappeared in 2007 in the Algarve, still no date set for commencement of trial.
In the civil case, Kate and Gerry McCann claim 1.2 million for defamation, while in another case Gonçalo Amaral is accused of breach of secrecy.

The decision to cancel the prohibition of sale of the book "Maddie - The Truth Lies" and the video with the same title, based on a documentary broadcast on TVI, was yesterday reported by the Lusa agency judicial source.

With the decision, the book and video can be re-marketed and Goncalo Amaral, who defends the thesis in the book of involvement of Kate and Gerry McCann in the disappearance of her daughter in May 2007, a holiday apartment in the Algarve, you can return to speak publicly in the case. 

The decision to ban the sale of the book and the video had been decreed on January 14 by Judge Rodrigues Cunha, of 7. Th the Lisbon Civil Court, ruled that the injunction filed by the McCanns.

The ban was provisionally enacted September 9, 2009, and the main action, the McCann family claimed the protection of the rights, freedoms and guarantees.

"The book is an exercise of citizenship and freedom of expression," says author

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Portugal cancels ban on Madeleine's book

Cultura y Sociedad
Portugal anula la prohibición del libro sobre Madeleine; El comisario luso que investigó la desaparición de la menor sostiene en él que sus padres están implicados; Desaparecida desde 2007
EFE / Lisboa
20 October 2010
La Opinión de Murcia
Spanish


A Portuguese court today overturned the ban on sales of the book on the Madeleine case by former commissioner who investigated, Gonçalo Amaral, which relates to the British girl's parents with their hypothetical death.
The lawyer for the parents of Madeleine McCann, Elizabeth Duarte, told Reuters the decision, contrary to the claim filed by its customers, today issued the Industrial Relations Court of Lisbon after an appeal by Amaral.
The girl's mother, Kate McCann considers "incredible" this court decision, said the lawyer, who is studying to see the possible measures to adopt.
Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007 in southern Portugal and parents organized a global media campaign to find her, but suggests in his book Amaral, appeared a year later, the girl could have died accidentally and the body was hidden.
The work, "Maddie, the truth lies," was suspended as a precautionary measure on September 9, 2009 and the prohibition of sale in Portugal, also extended to translations in other countries, was confirmed on 18 February when Lisbon Civil Court found in favor of the complaint for defamation and damage which had brought the parents.
The pair of British doctors, paving and other legal action against Amaral claim for compensation for the impact of his book, disagrees with this new ruling, his lawyer said.
The former inspector, who took early retirement following this case failed to prove the involvement of parents in the alleged disappearance of the girl by the Portuguese Attorney General, which closed the investigation on July 21, 2008 and acquitted the McCanns of the suspicions against them formal.
The couple always defended his innocence and accused Amaral not only have made them a great moral damage, but have hampered with his accusations, the search for the girl.
Last May, with the third anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine, the McCanns reappeared in several European television channels and print media to insist that they believe their daughter alive and seeking help to find it.
The girl disappeared while she slept with two smaller twins in a holiday apartment in Playa de la Luz in the Algarve while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with a group of friends.

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

I was returned to freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns

Polícia e Tribunais
Livro sobre Maddie
20 October 2010
Jornal de Notícias
Portuguese

Gonçalo Amaral may already be sold
Gonçalo Amaral: "Give me freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns"
Madeleine
"I was returned to freedom of expression stolen by the McCanns." The reaction is Goncalo Amaral after learning that the book "True Lies" will return to newsstands and that he can continue to defend the theory that Madeleine is dead.
The decision of the Court of Appeal of Lisbon, known yesterday, ending more than a year in which the former coordinator of the Judicial Police was forced to silence.
Three judges judges considered that the good name of the couple was not questioned nor private life was violated, claimed as their own. On the one hand, the elements described in the work listed in the criminal proceedings. "We do not find the book a reference to any facts not included in the final order," say the judges. On the other, "we find that they are themselves (the parents of Madeleine (which multiply in interviews and speeches in the media, providing them with information that otherwise would hardly be publicized."
Parents of missing girl to May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, Lagos, filed an injunction in September last year. By decision of the Civil Court of Lisbon, the book was withdrawn and not for sale in Portugal and abroad, such as reproduction of the documentary issued by TVI. Amaral was also unable to express themselves publicly on the theory of death. Former police use ratio and gave him reason, criticizing the couple and the decision of the Civil Court, which "violated the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the European Convention of Human Rights." MARISA RODRIGUES
FILE JN
Relationship indicates that the book does not question the good name of McCann or violate their privacy

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie