Transnational Repression Fact Sheet

ECPMF

28 September 2026

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Many journalists remain at risk even after seeking refuge abroad, facing legal insecurity, professional restrictions, Transnational Repression, and discrimination in host countries. Mapping Media Freedom has recorded 55 attacks against journalists and media outlets living and working in exile in 12 EU Member States and candidate countries from January 2020 to June 2026.

 

Many of these attacks are forms of Transnational Repression, where state actors seek to intimidate or silence journalists reporting from abroad. This factsheet looks at the different types of attacks and presents case studies of journalists in exile who continue their reporting work aside it all.

Journalismus im Exil und Transnationale Repression

Viele Journalist*innen sind auch nach ihrer Flucht ins Ausland weiterhin gefährdet. Sie sind mit rechtlicher Unsicherheit, beruflichen Einschränkungen, Transnationaler Repression (TNR) und Diskriminierung in ihren Aufnahmeländern konfrontiert. Mapping Media Freedom hat zwischen Januar 2020 und Juni 2026 insgesamt 55 Angriffe auf im Exil lebende und arbeitende Journalist*innen und Medienunternehmen in zwölf EU-Mitgliedstaaten und Beitrittskandidatenländern dokumentiert.

 

Viele dieser Angriffe stellen Formen Transnationaler Repression dar, bei denen staatliche Akteur*innen versuchen, Journalist*innen einzuschüchtern oder zum Schweigen zu bringen, die aus dem Ausland berichten. Dieses Factsheet beleuchtet die verschiedenen Arten von Angriffen und stellt Fallbeispiele von Journalist*innen im Exil vor, die trotz dieser Herausforderungen ihre journalistische Arbeit fortsetzen.

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