[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5500" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] The partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) are worried about developments in Albania this week. Cyber-attacks on news outlets believed to be in relation to their reporting on Tirana’s Mayor E

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] ECPMF and the 26 undersigned human rights and journalists’ organisations call for the immediate release of journalist Sedef Kabaş following her late-night arrest on January 22 and for an end to the judicial harassment of independent media. On January 2

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Strong EU anti-SLAPP law necessary to protect free expression and right to protest Brussels, 1 February 2022: On Tuesday, representatives of the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) , together with two individuals affected by Strategic Lawsuits Ag

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="1931" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] Press freedom groups raise concern over unprecedented FOI obstructions The undersigned international media freedom organisations today express growing concern over the challenges that media outlets in Mal

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5941" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) extend their support to journalist Grzegorz Rzeczkowski who faces four SLAPPs and was recently dismissed by Polityka, one of the major i

Belarus ranked 158th in the 2021 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. This is the most dangerous country in Europe for journalists.

Freedom of Information Acts, sometimes referred to as Access to Information Laws or Transparency Acts, are pieces of legislation which allow citizens to request information held by public authorities, but how do they work in practice?

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5941" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] ECPMF joins an open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama from international press freedom groups over decision to ban journalists from press conferences. Albanian translation below. [/vc_column_text][vc_sepa

ECPMF joined the partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), along with the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN), to condemn the arson attack on the offices of newspaper Real News and the radio station Real FM in Athens on 13 July 2022.

The partner organisations of the MFRR today welcome the resounding exoneration of four Greek journalists and publishers who faced criminal charges and potential lengthy prison sentences linked to their media outlets’ investigative reporting.