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16 Sep

Monitoring Report January-June 2025

The 2025 Monitoring Report on press freedom documents 709 violations in 36 EU Member States and candidate countries. Discover key trends: online attacks, foreign agent laws, government pressure, and rising threats in Serbia, Hungary, and beyond.

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11 Sep

Türkiye: Stop Throttling Social Media Platforms and Messaging Services

Türkiye is increasingly throttling social media platforms and messaging apps to silence online communication at moments of profound political or social importance. The undersigned human rights and press freedom organisations condemn Türkiye’s actions, which isolate people from vital information, and stifle democratic participation.

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11 Sep

Georgia: Media Freedom groups condemn latest attacks on journalists by ruling party activists and police

The undersigned media freedom, journalists’, and freedom of expression organizations strongly condemn the recent physical and verbal attacks on independent media by activists of the Georgian Dream ruling party and a police officer.

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11 Sep

Joint statement on proposed changes to US visas for foreign journalists

We, the undersigned, representing leading broadcast, print and digital media, news organizations and journalists’ organizations around the world, call on the United States Government to withdraw its recent proposal to change the I visa programme for foreign journalists.

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10 Sep

Media freedom groups welcome Google fine, call on EU to break up the tech giant’s digital advertising monopoly

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today calls on the European Union to step up its action against Google following the European Commission’s decision to impose a 2.95 billion euro fine on the company for anti-competitive practices through its dominance of the online advertising and advertising technology (adtech) services.

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9 Sep

Shelter City Leipzig officially launches: strengthening protection of international journalists and media workers in Saxony

We are happy to announce that the City of Leipzig, together with ECPMF, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Justice & Peace to establish Shelter City Leipzig and to launch a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the support of journalists at risk in Europe.

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8 Sep

Press freedom organisations, rights groups call for the release of journalist Furkan Karabay

The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the elongated pretrial detention of journalist Furkan Karabay, who faces a prison sentence of 6 to 15 years and call for his immediate release. Karabay has now spent 117 days in prison over his journalistic commentary.

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4 Sep

Serbia: MFRR partners warn against attempt to seize political control of last remaining independent TV stations N1 and Nova

The partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) express serious concern over the threat of political interference in the operations of the United Group's media outlets in Serbia, which owns the major independent television news channels that are active in Serbia, N1 and Nova TV.

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4 Sep

Turkey: MFRR partners condemn Turkey’s broadcast regulator’s decision to silence TELE1

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners condemn the five-day broadcast blackout imposed on TELE1 since September 1, and the escalating use of censorship sanctions by RTÜK, Turkey’s broadcast regulator, against independent critical media outlets. We urge authorities to stop targeting critical and opposing views and uphold media pluralism in line with democratic standards.

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4 Sep

Ten demands for maintaining media freedom in Czechia

Media freedom is the cornerstone of every democratic society. Independent journalism, together with media literacy and free access to information, is the best prevention against disinformation. In the run-up to the Czech parliamentary elections on 3 and 4 October 2025, the undersigned organisations therefore propose to political parties specific steps to protect these values. .

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