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AEJ deplores abrupt closure of Népszabadság, voices concern about political motivation

Népszabadság, Hungary’s leading daily newspaper and one of the last critical voices among the country’s national media, was suddenly closed on Saturday, prompting thousands...

Ten years on, journalists’ groups renew the urgent call for killers of Anna Politkovskaya to be found and punished

Today marks exactly ten years since the cold-blooded murder in Moscow of the highly respected Russian journalists Anna Politkovskaya, whose fearless reporting laid bare...

AEJ in Council of Europe consultations on Turkey’s ‘abuse’ of emergency laws against independent media

The AEJ and seven other European journalistic and press freedom organisations met the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, and other officials...

Turkish media freedom groups publish joint statement

The international AEJ fully supports the statement and appeal, ‘A Coup Against Journalists’, issued today by the G-9 Platform of media and press freedom...

42 journalists face arrests in clampdown following failed coup in Turkey; press freedom groups protest

European and international media and press freedom monitoring organisations have published the 188th ‘Alert’ concerning serious violations of media freedom since the start in April...

Turkey suspends human rights treaty: AEJ calls for respect of state obligations and restraint in actions against media

The Association of European Journalists, an independent professional association of journalists in Europe, expresses its extreme concern that freedom of expression, including the essential...

Draconian government actions after Turkeys’ failed coup threaten to suffocate free speech and press freedom

International media and press freedom monitoring organisations have used the Council of Europe’s online Platform for the protection of journalism and the safety of...

AEJ asks Polish Foreign Minister to stop campaign against Austrian author

Dear Minister, We write to record our objection to the campaign recently conducted by the Polish Embassy in Vienna against Martin Pollack, an experienced and...

Statement by the board of the „Association of European Journalists“ (AEJ)

The board members of the AEJ met in Bratislava on July 8th-9th on the occasion of the start of Slovakia’s presidency of the European...

The AEJ President comments on the Brexit vote

In a personal statement following the initial responses and contacts among European leaders and institutions after the announcement of the result of the UK's...

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