Stop Press May 5, 2024
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es, Vienna May 5, 2024
The Al-Jazeera office in a Jerusalem hotel has been raided and closed down by the Israeli authorities, who accuse the...
Press Freedom 2024 + ominous EP elections
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from Prof. Dr. L. Doğan Tılıç, AEJ Turkey Representative, Ankara, May 4, 2024
In Turkey, one day before World Press Freedom Day, another journalist, Barış...
AEJ condemns apparent state capture of Slovak public media
AEJ condemns apparent state capture of Slovak public media
The AEJ strongly condemns the ongoing verbal assaults by Slovak government officials on journalists working for...
Fears for life of Putin hostage Kara-Murza
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(es) Vienna, April 11, 2024
Ex-wunderkind as young journalist Vlaidimir Kara-Murza, now into his second year of a 15-year sentence in a Siberian punishment camp,...
Clear voices out of Russia
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(es) Vienna, April 9, 2024
It would be great to report some better news, but perhaps the best is the clear, independent voice of Russian...
Hella Pick – fearless and brilliant survivor
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(es) Vienna, April 7, 2024
Death of legendary Austrian-English correspondent
Leaving Vienna as child number 4672 on a Kindertransport, Hella Pick, who has died in London...
Settling scores with media – murder as business
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SG. Vienna, March 30, 2024
As reported here yesterday, vicious and often murderous attacks on colleagues continue - sometimes in another country. In London, a...
Telling it like it is about journalism
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SG. Vienna, Good Friday, April 29, 2024
On this of all days it's as if the news could not be more bloody or had to...
European elections ….and latest on Russian prisoners
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(es) Vienna, March 22 2024
As the European elections approach, the Euractiv newsletter describes moves to join forces with the historically centre-right European People's Party....
AEJ joins plea for Russian colleagues
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(wm/ es) London and Vienna, March 20, 2024
The AEJ today joined nine other European press organisations in sending a strongly-worded letter to the Czech prime...