The major campaign group Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) – which includes the AEJ – has welcomed the Council of Europe’s Recommendation on SLAPPs […]
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Julian Assange extradition
The High Court in London said on 26 March that United States authorities must promise that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not receive the death […]
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AEJ warns of threat to exiled Russian journalists in Czech Republic
The AEJ has joined nine other European media freedom organisations in a letter to the Czech government expressing deep concern about the security of exiled Russian […]
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How international law can reverse the global assault on free speech
William Horsley, AEJ UK chair, examines how a new book charts ways that international law can be used to defend free speech and media freedom. […]
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Whose extremists?
“Mob rule is replacing democratic rule” – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.“Islamists … have got control of London” – Lee Anderson, former Conservative party deputy […]
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Press freedom in Europe: time to turn the tide
The AEJ joined 14 other partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists on March 5 to urge action on […]
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SLAPPs get slapped
The UK Parliament has backed a measure to tackle the use of SLAPPs – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. This legal tactic has been widely […]
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AEJ joins call to protect journalists and media freedom in Israel-Gaza war
The AEJ has joined 17 other media freedom, journalist, and human rights groups to call for immediate and decisive actions to end Israel’s “deliberate targeting” […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch held an online roundtable discussion on media freedom in Hungary on 23 February. The host […]
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Israel now a leading jailer of journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists has found Israel is one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists following the October 7 start of the Israel-Gaza […]
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The freedom and health of UK media – a point of view
From Charles Jenkins, AEJ UK Secretary(Originally written for the Il Giornale Europeo website – https://www.ilgiornaleeuropeo.it/ – edited by Giuseppe Jacobini, AEJ Italy in December 2022, […]
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Revelations of Russian money laundering through Cyprus
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 68 media partners have exposed a sprawling financial industry using Cyprus to launder Russian money.European Union lawmakers have […]
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AEJ annual congress in Albania
The AEJ held its annual general assembly and international congress in the port and resort city of Vlorë (Vlora), Albania, in October 2023 – from the AEJ UK’s Tony Robinson, former FT correspondent and East European editor.
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How AI Challenges Journalism as Never Before
This is a column by Llewellyn King, AEJ member and executive producer/host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS in the USA, based on remarks he […]
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Report from AEJ media freedom representative
Report to the General Assembly 2023 – Vlore ALBANIA – 25-29 October 2023 from AEJ Media Freedom Representative Kyriakos Pieridis KEY CHALLENGES: OVERVIEW Media Freedom […]
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