Focus on Media Freedom

The AEJ is an official Observer in the Council of Europe's Media Steering Committee.

The AEJ’s Media Freedom Representative, William Horsley, with other media and NGO organisations, has called on Member States to fulfil their 2009 pledge to ensure that national anti-terrorism laws are not misused to block legitimate freedom of expression.

The AEJ welcomes the focus on media freedom in the Decision by Ministers’ Deputies, but questions the failure to adopt more far-reaching measures to counter attacks on journalists’ lives and work.

» Full report on the AEJ-EP Seminar on Media Freedom in the EU
» AEJ Media Freedom Representative: Proposals for EU Action
» Council of Europe 2012 Decision on Media Freedom
» AEJ finds media freedom crumbling across eastern Europe

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» AEJ MF Project
» AEJ MF Representative
» AEJ MF Surveys and Reports
» AEJ & the Council of Europe
» World Press Freedom Day

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

NAVALNY’s arrest: AEJ calls for severe sanctions on Russia by EU-leaders

AEJ-President Otmar Lahodynsky: „In a mockery trial Nawalny was sentenced to 30-days’ imprisonment, while the Russian justice authorities so far refused any investigation about the poisoning of Nawalny as Russian citizen on Russian soil, apparently on the order of the Kremlin.“

Monday, January 18, 2021

AEJ Statement demands freedom for Andrei Aliaksandrau and other detained Belarus journalists

The Association of European Journalists strongly protests against the detention since 12 January of Belarusian journalist Andrei Aliaksandrau on public order charges. We call for his immediate release and the freeing of eight other Belarus journalists now held in jail in connexion with their reporting of public protests against the government. Read the AEJ statement…

Andrei Aliaksandrau Foto: Tibor Macak

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Judge blocks extradition of Julian Assange to USA

Julian Assange, Australian journalist, whistleblower and founder of "WikiLeaks" who revealed US-war crimes in the Middle East, will not be extradited to the US, but has to stay in the UK high-security prison in Belmarsh. The judge, Vanessa Baraitser, stated that the abusive U.S. prison system could not protect him from suicide. But she also said Assange’s conduct “went beyond that of a journalist” in agreeing to help Chelsea Manning crack a password and in telling her that “curious eyes never run dry,” encouraging her to leak more files. The release of unredacted cables (of US-army and CIA) was “indiscriminate”. The US will appeal against the ruling.

Monday, December 28, 2020

4 years jail-sentence for Chinese blogger

She reported with videos and blogs about the Corona-disease in Wuhan and how citizens were treated. In Mai she was abducted by Chinese Police. Before she was sentenced to 4 years’ in prison for "stirring up unrest" she started a hunger strike.