Press Freedom

Vienna. June 2, 2021 by Otmar Lahodynsky, former AEJ international president The EU should adopt tougher punitive measures against Lukashenko. Trying to protect him from Putin's...

Vienna. June 5, 2021 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, AEJ Public campaigns by independent journalists' organisations in Poland are calling for "strong and public measures" to combat...

Vienna, June 4 2021 The beating or worse of Roman Protasevich was paraded to Belarus prime-time viewers last night to the horror and shame of...

William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative The Council of Europe has announced details of the Conference of Ministers responsible for the media to be held on...

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Photo: Prof Yaman Akdeniz (Credit T24) (es) Vienna, May 30, 2021 The AEJ has joined Article 19's call for a strong response to Belarus's criminal kidnapping...

Vienna, May 28 2021 The fight against Vladimir Putin's regime is increasingly online, not least  Mikhail Khodorkovsky's determined (and thanks to him, well-funded) resistance from...

Vienna, May 28 2021 by Edward Steen Russia's engagement with its satrapy Belarus' criminal hikacking of a civilian flight to seize exiled dissident editor Roman Petratasevich...

Vienna, May 27, 2021 by Edward Steen Following the AEJ's call for the immediate release of our Belarussian colleague Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega,...

Vienna, May 24, 2021 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General “The state terrorism organized to silence one person reminds us just how important reporters are.” Thus Vienna-based American...