Press Freedom

The AEJ President today backed the dramatic plea on the BBC https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1384997315308568578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384997315308568578%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkhodorkovsky.com%2Fmbk-there-is-finally-some-understanding-of-what-should-be-done%2F by exiled Putin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky for western leaders to recognise the time...

es Vienna/ Madrid April 27, 2021 The Spanish journalists, David Beriain and Roberto Fraile and their so far unnamed Irish colleague were murdered by an...

Brussels, April 27, 2021 In March 2020 the European Commission launched the European News Media Forum  https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/european-news-media-forum-safety-journalists on the safety of journalists, part of the next European...

ES, Vienna, April 27 2021 In a hard-hitting statement today https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/secretary-general-european-governments-should-show-stronger-political-will-to-protect-press-freedom Council of Europe Secretary-General Marija Pejčinović Burić called for stronger political will by governments to protect...

Wednesday’s 90-minute online public event will present the annual report of the 14 Safety of Journalists Platform partners. MFR William Horsley reminds that pre-registration is...

The COVID-19 pandemic. Elections around the world. Fact-checkers worldwide have had a busy year. More than 50,000 new fact checks surfaced on Google Search over the...

ES Vienna, 27 April 2021 Irina Nedeva, the AEJ's special representative on fake news and disinformation spoke on the main private Bulgarian TV channel today...

William Horsley, London, April 27, 2021 This year’s World Press Freedom Day   https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day will take place with multiple events from April 29 to May 3, and the...

We know from the latest Facebook whistleblower that there are plenty of governments and others hard at work telling us lies or misleading half-truths....

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, three weeks into a hunger-strike, was said today to be close to death. US President Joe Biden,...