The AEJ has joined other concerned organisations CPJ, Article 19 and RSF in recording and protesting against the record wave of arrests, attacks and criminal cases against journalists for coverage of the mass protests over the arrest and jail sentence imposed on...

Guest Commentary by Jaka Bizilj *, founder of Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation February 3, 2021   Alexei Navalny's sentence to three and a half years in a penal colony is supposed to be punishment for not fulfilling his bail conditions and reporting to the...

Photo: © Council of Europe   A book just published by the Council of Europe provides remarkable insights from 20 ‘journalists at risk’ about the growing dangers they face for reporting on crime and corruption, and publicises their appeals for more effective protection...

The AEJ has formally endorsed an authoritative report launched on Wednesday by an independent High Level Legal Panel supporting the Global Media Freedom Coalition that is now made up of some 40 UN member states. The report calls for creation of a new International...

Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners and freedom of expression organisations are concerned about the alleged attempt to bribe a journalist by a member of Yorgen Fenech’s legal team. We call on the Maltese authorities and Chamber of Advocates to ensure the...

The AEJ condemns in the strongest terms all acts of violence by combatants targeting journalists and other media workers during the armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno Karabakh. Civilians including journalists are fully entitled to protection...

In a joint statement issued on 1 October ten Armenian media and NGO organisations have called for determined international condemnation of Azeri army attacks on journalists and other civilians in Nagorno Kharabakh and for new safeguards for journalists in the conflict...

Statement of the Slovak Section of the Association of European Journalists - Bratislava, 4 September 2020.   The Association of European Journalists, Slovak Section, is sadly appalled at the ruling of the Specialised Criminal Court in Slovakia, which acquitted the two...

The Association of European Journalists condemns the violent assault by police officers on a journalist covering anti-government protests in Sofia on Wednesday. Dimiter Kenarov, a freelance journalist and writer, was detained and beaten up by police late in the...

On September 3 AEJ Media Freedom Representative William Horsley and AEJ  President Otmar Lahodynsky today issued this  statement:- “The Association of European Journalists condemns the Belarussian authorities’ violent suppression of free media,  targeted attacks...

The AEJ is among 16 groups which have written to EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager urging her to take action in response to complaints that the Hungarian government has violated EU state aid rules on abuse of state advertising and aid to public...

The international Association of European Journalists issues this joint statement with the Board of the AEJ Hungarian Section: The AEJ and its national section in Hungary express our support and solidarity with Mr. Szabolcs Dull, who was dismissed on 22 July as the...

Press freedom, media development, and journalists’ organisations call on Member States to adopt ambitious EU budget for independent journalism and recovery of the media sector   Following the launch by the European Commission of its Recovery Plan for Europe, press...

Dear Ms Lindholm, The undersigned NGOs welcome the Commission’s commitment to address the threat of vexatious litigation against journalists, activists and others.  The weaponization of the law by powerful economic actors has for too long resulted in the suppression...

In response to the launch of the 2020 Annual Report by media freedom organisations "Hands Off Press Freedom", which documented a surge in violence and intimidation of journalists, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic Buric, has said...

The group of international media freedom NGOs working on the Council of Europe’s platform for the safety of journalists will launch their annual report for 2020 – entitled “Hands off press freedom: Attacks on media in Europe must not become a new normal” – via an...

A new statement by 24 concerned international groups, including the AEJ, has deplored Turkey’s failure to include journalists and human rights defenders among the 90,000 prisoners freed this week in response to the raised health risks in prisons caused by the...

On 1 March 2020, Greek freelance video reporter Sofia Kartali was arrested by Turkish police while recording the surge of would-be migrants massing at Elcili Koyu near the border with Greece in the hope of crossing it. On presentation of her Greek identity document...

Press freedom partner organisations including the AEJ have published an Open Letter addressed to the heads of the main EU institutions to express profound concerns about the dangers of governments taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to punish independent and...

Dear colleagues, dear friends:  The last weeks were indeed important: for Europe and for our association: In December we had a very good AEJ-congress in the prestigious UNESCO-headquarter in Paris. Despite the strike all went well and almost all participants arrived...