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Writing on wall for world’s oldest daily?

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 under the spotlight

  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...

Those we must not leave behind

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...

Can Ukraine destroy Putin? The case for optimism.

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

RSF protests against new Ukraine restrictions on reporters

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 23, 2023 In a war it's rare to find anything like complete freedom (or truthfulness) of information from either side....

Wiener Zeitung latest – creeping govt takeover

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 22, 2023 In defiance of protests across Austrian society, including by the respected former federal President Heinz Fischer, the 320-year-old...

UK govt planned to allow Wagner SLAPP against BBC

by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023 Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman,  now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...

UN testimony on Russia playing the victim in Ukraine

Testimony to UN Security Council on Russian hate speech By Timothy Snyder Evidence to UN Security Council session on 14/03/23 called by Russian Federation to discuss...

Georgia in turmoil over media freedom

Paris, March 10, 2023 After three days of intense street protests in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, parliamentarians have  scrapped government plans which plainly echo the...

Anger grows over Afghan journalists still stranded by Home Office inaction

Press members living under the Taliban, and living uncertain lives in Pakistan, must be given clarity say campaign groups   Hundreds of Afghan journalists remain stranded...

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