Index on Censorship’s weekly roundup of Mapping Media Freedom, a project that verifies violations against the media throughout Europe
Mapping Media Freedom: Mass detention of journalists in Belarus on Freedom Day
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CATEGORY: Mapping Media Freedom
Exiled, jailed, silenced: The war against Azerbaijan’s journalists
Azerbaijan’s independent and critical journalists frequently find themselves targeted.
Belarus: Crackdown sweeping journalists and human rights defenders into detention
Hundreds of protests were detained during a weekend of anti-government protests in Belarus.
Memnune Mayda: “Our only child is definitely not a traitor”
The mother of Özkan Mayda, a Turkish photojournalist for the Zaman daily, shares her son’s story.
Mapping Media Freedom: Five journalists detained in Belarus after covering protest against unemployment tax
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries.
Mapping Media Freedom: Spanish journalists harassed by Podemos officials
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries.
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union
In the “safe” world of Swedish journalism, death threats are an everyday reality
A spectre that has haunted Swedish journalism for decades is anti-democratic extremism, a phenomenon given new impetus by the rise of mainstream nationalist politics
Journalists in jeopardy: new report launches media freedom campaign
Media Freedom Month highlights pressures on journalists. Report shows media workers silenced through violence and arrest in 2016
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations...
Mapping Media Freedom – a major Index on Censorship project and a joint undertaking with the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, partially funded by the European Commission – covers 42 countries, including all EU member states, plus Bosnia, Iceland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Albania along with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in (added in April 2015), and Azerbaijan (added in February 2016). The platform was launched in May 2014 and has recorded over 3,000 incidents threatening media freedom.
Violations, censorship and needs of threatened journalists in Europe
Journalists and media workers are confronting relentless pressure simply for doing their job. Mapping Media Freedom identifies threats, violations and limitations faced by members of the press throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and neighbouring countries. Learn more.