Press Freedom

London. July 20, 2021 by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative Despite the denials of the NSO Group and the Israeli authorities, the Pegasus scandal is...

(ES) Athens/ Vienna  July 21, 2021 Open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, Commission President and Vice-President Vera Jourova The Israeli security company NSO has sold...

Updated, July 28, 2021 by Edward Steen, AEJ General-Secretary Revelations about the use of Pegasus software used to spy on journalists  – including FT editor Roula...

(es) Brussels/ Vienna. July 20, 2021 The €20,000 Daphne Caruana Galizia prize will be awarded as of October 2021 to journalists or teams of journalists...

Cannes/ Tiblisi, July 15 2021 by Mark Porter Anti-gay violence, already a feature of Vladimir Putin's Russia, is spreading into formerly Soviet Georgia, with brutal police...

Amsterdam/ Vienna. July 15, 2021 by Edward Steen, AEJ Secretary-General Just over a week after being shot in broad daylight as he emerged from an Amsterdam...

(es) London/ Vienna, July 14 2021 In a first halfway serious reverse for big tech, France has fined Google €500m for failing to negotiate “in...

Yerevan/ London, July 12, 2021 by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Special Representative A Spanish photojournalist visiting Armenia’s Gegharkunik province (see political map) near the border...

Ankara/ Berlin July 8, 2021 from Dogan Tilic, Ankara/ Berlin Erk Acarer, a prominent exiled opposition columnist for the independent Turkish daily BirGün, was attacked by...

London/ Amsterdam  July 6, 2021 Celebrated Dutch crime reporter "critically ill" after Amsterdam shooting By William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de...