Turkey 🇹🇷 , Hungary 🇭🇺, Georgia 🇬🇪 and Russia 🇷🇺 have implemented "foreign agent" laws that copy one another's to crack down on #freedomofthepress and #journalists. 🎤Metin Cihan, Tamas Bodoky , @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social & @protivorechie.bsky.social Bekbulatova share their experience, at iMEdD forum.

So proud the investigation by Giorgio Michalopoulos and Stefano Valentino made it to the final phase of the brilliant IJ4EU impact awards!

Warm congrats to all the winners of the 2025 #IJ4EU impact awards!

So proud the investigation by Giorgio and Stefano was among the finalists of the prestigious IJ4EU impact awards!

Definitely need some ironing. The topic is relevant, though.

It was great listening to the "other side": how freelancers perceive their relationship with newsrooms. Glad to hear we're not doing so bad!

300 days! 💪🇬🇪

See you on Tuesday! We'll see how to frame and fact-check far-right narratives on key topics like climate, social issues and migration with a couple of top European reporters.

See you there! I'll be moderating the conversation, along with my colleague Catherine André.

📅 À vos agendas ! Démystifier l’infox d’extrême droite, mode d’emploi 💬 Une conversation avec @annalisacamilli.bsky.social et @malichudis.bsky.social sur le projet #RightWatch, mené par Voxeurop, @internazionale.it 🇮🇹 et Solomon 🇬🇷. ⏰ 30 septembre, 13h30. ✍️ Inscription : voxeurop.eu/fr/event/dem...

🟥 Founder of independent media outlets and prominent journalist, Mzia Amaglobeli, has been unjustly imprisoned for 254 days. 💢 She is the first journalist in #Georgia to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience since the collapse of the Soviet Union. freemzia.com #Journalismisnotacrime #FreeMzia

Ci vediamo lì! Insieme alla collega Catherine André cercheremo di capire come possiamo evitare di cadere nelle trappole che i populisti di destra ci tendono continuamente.

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted today against lifting the immunity of left-wing Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, arguing that she would not get a fair trial in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

Ready, steady etc. #Lectorinfabula #Linf25

⬜ 🟥 ⬜ In the summer of 2020, the people in 🇧🇾 #Belarus took the streets to protest against the stolen presidential election. Five years on, the country looks dramatically different – and not better, says Belarusian independent media Pozirk: pozirk.online/en/longreads...

L'hommage de la rédaction de Voxeurop à celui qui a une part de responsabilité dans l'existence de ce média pas comme les autres 👇

Siete ancora in tempo per l'edizione di questa settimana. Fate presto!

Hurry up! You're still on time for this week's issue!

L'hommage de la rédaction de Voxeurop à un de ses inspirateurs et soutiens, prématurément disparu la semaine dernière.

1/6 🆘 Media founder and prominent Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been unlawfully imprisoned for 250 days. ❌ She is the first journalist in #Georgia to be recognized as a prisoner of conscience since the collapse of the Soviet Union. #FreeMzia #JournalismIsNotACrime #RepressionInGeorgia

#Georgia: Journalists continue to be targeted during anti-gov protests. On 8 September, activists assaulted journalists, threw objects at them and stole their phones. Footage showed that the police either failed to intervene or directly participated in the attacks.

#Belarus: The release of journalists and political prisoners is a very good news. But after years behind bars, many of them are being forcibly deported abroad: some have health issues and no means of livelihood. This Fundraising campaign aims to provide them with essential assistance ⤵️

If you're around Bonn and want to meet some of 🇬🇪 Georgia's brevest journalists, don't miss this one:

⭕️ OPINION - As human rights and democracy deteriorate in Georgia, the MEGOBARI Act offers the US a chance to respond. But one Senator stands in the way. ➡️ Read more:

#Belarus's response to the recent wave of drone strikes says a lot about how cornered Lukashenka's regime has become. Minsk admitted the incident and said it had shared real-time intelligence with #Poland and #Lithuania about "unidentified drones" near their borders.

When not triggering the orange monster is your new priority

Condemn Poland's airspace violating my drone for 300km. Call on West to continue to express concern.

Human rights organisations and notable individuals such as Nobel laureate Sviatlana Aleksievich have signed a manifesto demanding the immediate release of all political prisoners in #Belarus, emphasizing that no compromise can be made without their release and ending repression.

1/ "If Trump and his allies sometimes seem detached from reality, the joke is on reality." Journalist Andrey Babitskiy explains why Trump and Putin understand each other so well, and what Americans can learn from Russia's experience. buff.ly/qpLeS29

Where Stavros brilliantly debunks Athen's government claims on cracking down on human traffickers:

✏️ After a slight delay, the Global #Sumud Flotilla set sail from Barcelona, in hopes of breaking Israel's blockade of #Gaza. Will it reach the Palestinian territory under Israeli siege? The cartoon of the week, by Milko Dalla Battista 🇮🇹. W/ @cartoonmovement.com voxeurop.eu/en/global-su...

Non è un caso se la flottiglia è partita dalla Spagna: il premier spagnolo Pedo Sánchez è uno dei pochi leader europei a condannare l'atteggiamento pavido dei suoi colleghi sulla situazione a Gaza:

Il reporter greco @malichudis.bsky.social smonta le dichiarazioni trionfaliste del governo di Atene sulla repressione dei trafficanti di esseri umani:

Ottima analisi di @stellalevantesi.bsky.social :

🇬🇪Georgia’s paradox: a government despised by its people, yet firmly in power. Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream survives not through popularity, but by fusing repression, economic dependency, and rigged institutions. 🧵In this thread I try to explain this paradox. 1/16

Gli Stati Uniti stanno scivolando verso la dittatura? Oggi su La Stampa

Listen to Renate Schroeder, EFJ Director's words at yesterday's solidarity action in #Brussels, where we paid tribute to the 219 journalists who lost their lives while reporting on the massive killing of the population in #Gaza. "Stop killing the journalists". @renateschroeder.bsky.social

The Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics will not carry out monitoring of election coverage ahead of the 2025 municipal vote. The organisation cited the loss of funding as a result of restrictive laws recently adopted by the Georgian Dream government. oc-media.org/georgian-med...

Proud to have been among the fellows who read the names of the 219 Palestinian journalists killed in the Gaza war to honour them and demand that the Israeli government is held accountable for targeting them (despite its denials) & for the restrictions it has imposed on media coverage of the war.

🇬🇪Georgia is suffocating under Putin’s Trojan Horse Georgian Dream. Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream has turned a pro-European nation into a captured state. The West is still looking away. It’s time to act - and sanctions are the key. 1/16

See you there!

Happy Independence Day, #Ukraine!

🚨 These two photos were taken 205 days apart. The first, on the left, is from January 14, when Mzia Amaglobeli was unjustly placed in pre-trial detention. The second, on the right, was taken on August 6, when she was unjustly sentenced to two years in prison. #FreeMzia 1/2

🇬🇪Why is Georgian Dream surviving despite mass protests, backlash, and international condemnation? The answer isn’t repression alone. It’s money. 🧵A thread on how Bidzina Ivanishvili’s fortune and Russian inflows saved his regime - and why it’s still may crack. 1/16

If Ukraine changes its constitution to make my invasion legal, I promise to change Russian constitution to make next invasion illegal. Even though Russian law already says invasions are illegal.

Me arriving in Alaska: Customs: Name? Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Customs: Occupation? Me: No, just here to give Donald his evaluation.

'After all, agreements with Russia don’t live long. But the images of the U.S. military honor guards kneeling to roll out the red carpet for a murderer? Those will last.'

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

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