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Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence

by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023 Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...

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...

WSJ reporter feted and free press defended

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reports that  Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...

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...

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