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“NEW FOCUS ON EU, MORE REAL JOURNALISM” - NEW AEJ PRESIDENT Elections to the International Board of the AEJ this week brought a new president,...

Guest commentary by former AEJ President Otmar Lahodynsky in the Wiener Zeitung February 18, 2021 MEDIA FREEDOM IN DANGER The EU must finally show more energy in defending...

At least 22 raids were made today on the homes and offices of journalists, human rights activists, and trade union members in “a preliminary...

After today’s Hungarian court ruling confirmed Klubradio loss of its broadcast frequency in a hotly disputed decision by the country’s partisan regulatory body, AEJ...

Guest Commentary for AEJ by Jaka Bizilj *, founder of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, Berlin February 3, 2021 Alexei Navalny’s sentence to three and a...

Unprecedented wave of arrests and repression of journalists in Russia in ongoing Navalny protests   The AEJ has joined other concerned organisations CPJ, Article 19 and...

The sentencing of Alexei Navalny on trumped-up charges to three and a half years in a penal colony was “a grotesque infringement of elementary...

Hungary’s Klubradio fights to stay on air after hostile decision by pro-government regulator   Klubradio, known as the last independent radio station in Hungary, has publicly...

A legend of Turkish journalism who died for revealing the truth: Will Europe defend journalists at risk today? By William Horsley This article is slightly adapted...

No „constructive engagement“ with Moscow because of gas-pipeline   The arrest and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his return to Moscow from Berlin...