📸 We are joining the fome Symposium 2025 with CDAC’s Public Forum on 9–10 Dec at DW, Bonn. ECPMF will show how @mediafreedomEU and the Hannah Arendt Initiative have become key protection mechanisms for journalists. We’ll discuss shrinking civic space, Big Tech, and local media.

The MFRR offers temporary relocation in Leipzig for journalists facing harassment or intimidation as a direct result of their reporting. This creates a safe environment in which journalists can recover and continue their work without exposure to risks. mfrr.eu/support/

Dozens of Georgian journalists are behind bars under fabricated charges. The judiciary is being weaponised against dissent. Learn what the international community can do at our next webinar in collaboration with PEN International: mfrr.eu/jailed-for-dis… #FreeMzia

We are at Universität zu Köln attending “How to defend Human Rights Defenders?”. Authoritarian govts hit journalists too often. Protecting human rights defenders is inseparable from defending press freedom. Frontline voices from Afghanistan, Russia, Zimbabwe are making the stakes clear.

Our monitoring depends on contributions from individuals across Europe. If you know of a media freedom violation, submit it through our form. Include as much detail as possible, as this supports our experts in verifying and assessing each alert. mappingmediafreedom.org/report-it/

Once a regional democratic example, Georgia is sliding toward full authoritarianism. Join experts on 12 December as they lay out the facts and pathways for resistance: mfrr.eu/jailed-for-dis… #FreeMzia

🌟 We offer up to six months of protection and stability for journalists who need temporary relocation. With a stipend, furnished housing, professional training, and direct support from @ecpmf, it enables meaningful recovery and continued investigations. mfrr.eu/support/

Journalism across Europe is underfunded, targeted, and attacked with sophisticated digital tools. Our MFRR Summit 2025 report captures how experts and journalists are pushing back, shaping policy, and strengthening safeguards across the EU. Check it out! mfrr.eu/mfrr-summit-20…

Happening today at 11:00 CET “Jailed for Dissent – Georgian Journalists and Writers Under Crackdown.”: mfrr.eu/jailed-for-dis… Mzia Amaglobeli’s imprisonment exposes Georgia’s political use of the courts against journalists and pro-EU voices. Join us and PEN International.

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Journalists and human rights defenders fleeing persecution must not be returned to danger. The EU’s new return policy undermines press freedom and human rights obligations. Our statement explains why this must change. mfrr.eu/eus-dangerous-…

Georgia is imprisoning journalists and writers for dissent. This webinar examines the systematic crackdown on media freedom, the capture of the judiciary, and how dissent is being criminalised. Watch the recording. youtube.com/watch?v=IUGka6…

Over 60 political prisoners. 31 journalists arrested. 117 attacks on media freedom. This is today’s Georgia. In this webinar, speakers unpacked how journalists and writers, including Mzia Amaglobeli and poet Zviad Ratiani, are being jailed for dissent: youtube.com/watch?v=IUGka6…

Today, we are at the Sakharov Prize ceremony in Strasbourg. Honouring 2025 laureates Mzia Amaglobeli and Andrzej Poczobut with pride, but also outrage. No journalist should receive a human rights prize from a prison cell. They must be free.