EBU warns of “dire conditions for media freedom”

The European Broadcasting Union has called for immediate action to protect journalists and the freedom of expression. 

The lack of police and judicial follow-up to crimes against journalists” has become the “new normal” according to a report by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) that investigated the threats and attacks against media freedom in Europe over 2018.

Last year, the murders of Ján Kuciak and fiancée Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia and Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, were among 35 alerts for attacks on journalists’ physical safety and integrity.

Alerts about serious threats to journalists’ lives doubled, and were…