Press Freedom

On World Press Freedom Day: Perfidious threats on the rise By Otmar Lahodynsky, Honorary President AEJ Today's World Press Freedom Day does not offer pleasant news....

A new report issued by 15 media freedom organisations partners to the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists shows that the number of alerts...

by Mark Porter in Edinburgh Thursday 28 April 2022 Afghan terrorist groups yesterday murdered five members of the oppressed Hazara tribe as they ratchet up...

Lech, Austria, 24/04/22 by Otmar Lahodynsky, Honorary AEJ President A seminar of media experts (in German/ DE) on the Arlberg pass was dedicated to the new threats to...

"It is a terrible thing to be in possession of a truth that people don't want to hear," writes Howard Jacobson in a BBC...

ES. Vienna, 24/04/22 The attack of Odesa which so many had feared began yesterday evening with the bombardment of an apartment block and the deaths...

ES. Vienna, April 23, 2021 Hard to believe the heroics not just of Ukraine but of its newly-minted Kyiv Independent and its young staff, their...

 ES Vienna, April 20, 2022 The war rages on, with Russian troops now thrusting forward on a 300-mile front into the Donbas and Ukraine's industrial...

(es) Vienna, April 17, 2022 updated 18/04 The Russian media, now subject to exile and bankruptcy, and/or up to 15 years in prison for calling...

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 17, 2022 The irritations of the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, will be familiar to political stars of the past,...