Europe

by Otmar Lahodynsky. Vienna, May 3, 2023    Today, World Press Freedom Day: Austria is only at 29th place in the new global ranking. Wars, crises...

  Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto: "Do not die with your head bowed down" The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began 80 years ago. Memories of ex-commander...

Marek Edelman und das Warschauer Ghetto: "Nicht mit gesenktem Kopf sterben" Vor 80 Jahren begann der Aufstand jüdischer Kämpfer gegen SS-Truppen im Warschauer Ghetto. Erinnerungen...

by Edward Steen, Vienna May 1 2023 The dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania from 1941 to 1985, had 175,000 steel and concrete bunkers of...

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 30, 2023 There is too much news, for me and no doubt for you too, loyal readers and colleagues... ...

Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will show whether Erdoğan's decade of relentless state interference with the media has paid off for...

by Edward Steen, Vienna April 21, 2023 Despite protests from all over Europe and by Austria's leading figures, the liberal Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest-surviving...

  Journalists’ freedom in the crosshairs by Kyriakos Pieridis, AEJ Media Freedom Representative, Nicosia 11/04/23 Nicosia's Municipal Theatre last Wednesday was packed for the play by Times...

The UK government has failed in its task to rescue Afghans. Here MARTIN BRIGHT, Index on Censorship's editor-at-large, speaks to members of a new...

When the US government offered to help Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky evacuate as Russia was attacking Kyiv, Zelensky responded: "The fight is here. I...