The UK High Court has ruled that London’s Metropolitan police breached the rights of organisers of a planned vigil for rape and murder victim Sarah […]
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UK’s Ofcom revokes RT licence
The UK’s media regulator has revoked RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK. Ofcom took the action on March 18 saying the licence holder was […]
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Russia out of Council of Europe
Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe (CoE) is finished after 26 years. And that means Russia is no longer bound by the European Convention […]
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Supreme Court denies Julian Assange permission to appeal extradition
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed dismay at the UK Supreme Court’s decision to refuse permission for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to appeal his extradition. […]
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Can Europe embargo energy supplies?
What will be the consequences for global energy supplies of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
And can Europe survive without massive imports of Russian gas and oil?
The AEJ’s Chris Cragg has this analysis. Chris is an experienced writer on energy and climate change who has worked for 30 years for FT Energy and other specialist publications.
Support for journalists
There are a number of ways directly to support journalists at high risk in Ukraine AEJ media freedom representative William Horsley summary European Federation of […]
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Committee to Protect Journalists EFJ/IFJ European/International Federations of Journalists on Ukraine Reporters Without Borders (RSF):Journalist victimsUkraine page Institute for War & Peace Reporting International Center […]
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Russia to withdraw from Council of Europe
Russia has announced it will no longer participate in the Council of Europe (CoE) – two weeks after the pan-European human rights body suspended Moscow’s […]
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The Rule of Law and Ukraine war
The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law has reported on an initiative to establish a special tribunal on the crime of aggression in relation […]
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Hugh O’Shaughnessy 1935-2022
It is with great sadness that the AEJ notes the death of Hugh O’Shaughnessy at the age of 87 on March 1. Hugh was a […]
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Imagining the future
The AEJ’s Tony Robinson, former FT correspondent in Moscow, Rome and east European editor, has this look past the current fighting in Ukraine. Out of […]
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Journalists in danger
The director-general of UNESCO has denounced the killing of a local television cameraman in Ukraine as scattered reports emerged of other journalists injured, missing and […]
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Pictures of protest
The war in Ukraine has sparked protests around the world.
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The information war – Russia hits back
Russia stepped up the information war over the Ukraine on March 4. The government tightened control of information inside Russia two days after the European […]
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EU Commission bans Russian media RT and Sputnik
The European Union Commission has officially banned two major Russian state-owned media – television network RT (formerly Russia Today) and news agency Sputnik. The exceptional […]
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