Press Freedom

Vienna, March 13, 2023 by Edward Steen As the UK Conservative government lurches from one own-goal to another, its latest self-inflicted mishap concerns Gary Linaker, one...

  Paris, 12/03/23 Explosion blasts awards ceremony for journalists, two dead,16 hurt, and three children The explosion took place at the Tabian Farhang centre in  the capital...

Vienna, March 11, 2023 Harrowing personal story of Russian journalist who broke ranks with Kremlin Marina Ovsyannikova challenged the Kremlin with a spectacular protest against the...

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...

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...

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 8, 2023 Julia Jofffe, originally from Russia, goes from strength to strength with her new magazine Puck in getting underneath...

By Edward Steen, Secretary-General in Bratislava, March 8, 2023 We sit waiting for her in what must be one of the brightest, most modern shopping...

News battleground becomes horribly personal Vienna, March 3, 2023 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General The Slovak National Criminal Agency has launched a criminal prosecution over death threats against...

Vienna, February 28, 2023 by Edward Steen The innovative UK tv station Channel 4 News has been saved from being broken up and sold off by...

Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin Rishi Sunak's Treasury allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny...