Press Freedom

U.S. "Doesn’t Understand" Russian goals. Really?  Vienna/ Geneva/ Kyiv. January 10, 2022 by Edward Steen The NYT today curtain-raises talks between US and Russia in Geneva amid...

Vienna/ Warsaw, January 7, 2022. Otmar Lahodynsky, honorary AEJ President, was a correspondent in Warsaw 40 years ago. He photographed the moment when a dream...

Will Kazakhstan insurrection derail Russian expansionism?  Vienna/ Kyiv, January 7, 2022. by Edward Steen, Secretary-General An Italian friend living in Kyrgyzstan today reported that refugees from...

Vienna, December 16, 2021 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General The world at the close of 2021 resembles one of those cruel, too-complicated stories. For our friends and...

Izmir / Paris by Mark Porter Turkey is one of the world’s biggest oppressors of journalism, in the same league as China. Since the failed coup...

London / Vienna. December 10, 2021 by Edward Steen As a long-ago troublemaker (diarist) at the FT, it is good to see that my young successors...

Ankara / Vienna, December 8, 2021 by Edward Steen If not now, then when? The insufferable behaviour of President Tayyip Erdoğan, would-be sultan of Turkey, has...

Kabul, November 10, 2021 To the Human Rights Advocates and Media Supporters! from Mohammad Kabir Shafaq, Journalist Fate has cruelly played with my destiny and that of my generation’s; I have...

Will UK's judicial "bespoke sewer" be reformed at last? London/ Vienna. November 24, 2021 by William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative Nineteen organisations including the AEJ have expressed...

(es) Brussels, November 23, 2021 This is the text of Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová's message to the AEJ's general assembly last night. Her brief is...