Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners are highly concerned about the wave of abusive legal actions against Croatian online news outlet Index.hr.

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] 23 September 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The EU rule of law report is an important step towards strengthening the foundational values of the Union – respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights. To

Twenty years ago today, Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan was shot dead in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. To this day, no one has been held to account for his brutal murder.

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] 29 September 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] This morning ARTICLE 19, Index on Censorship and Fair Trials wrote to INTERPOL to request clarification about whether a Red Notice or Diffusion has been issued against the British journalist, Clare Re

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] 8 October 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The undersigned organisations express their serious concern at the legal proceedings that have been filed in a UK court against journalist and author Tom Burgis, his publisher HarperCollins, and his empl

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] 11 October 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response today express serious concern over a new Media and Information Agency (MIA) established by th

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text]A photographer for the regional daily L’Union, Christian Lantenois, was seriously injured on Saturday 27 February while covering tensions in the Croix-Rouge district of Reims. Lantenois is currently in the

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text]Dear Members of the European Parliament, Article 11 of the European Union’s Charter on Fundamental Rights is under threat as media freedom and media pluralism deteriorates alarmingly in Hungary and Poland.

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] This opinion piece by Adam Michnik was originally published by Gazeta Wyborcza on March 8 2021, 20:32 here . The assault on free media is only one of the many fronts opened by the ruling camp in its war on Polish democracy and civil society. If my word

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] 11 October 2021 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Between 14 and 16 October, representatives of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) as well as ARTICLE 19, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the European Federation of Journa