{"id":31038,"date":"2022-02-26T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/?p=31038"},"modified":"2022-02-26T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:21:39","slug":"solidarity-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/solidarity-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AEJ has co-signed the statement of solidarity with our colleagues in Ukraine below, and is separately and independently\u00a0calling for the immediate ban on\u00a0Russia Today<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>broadcasts in all EU countries<\/strong>\u00a0as a blatant weapon of mis- and disinformation, among them the falsehood that Ukrainian President Zelensky has been instructed by the USA to flee Kyiv.\u00a0See resolution.<\/a><\/p>\n

Germany has already banned RT after\u00a0Deutche Welle<\/em><\/a>, along with other western news media such as RT\/RL, was kicked out of Russia.<\/p>\n

William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative based in London, writes that the statement below, coordinated by\u00a0Justice for Journalists<\/a>, has issued the following statement co-signed by the AEJ along with more than 40 media and press freedom organisations.<\/p>\n

Issued on the second day of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the statement utterly condemns the state violence and aggression by Russia that puts thousands of journalists in Ukraine in grave danger. It condemns the cyberattacks and disinformation employed by the aggressors against the free Ukrainian media. And the more than 40 signatory organisations send a message of solidarity to those independent Russian media which continue to report the truth in conditions of unprecedented intimidation and pressure in their country.<\/p>\n

SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE AND UKRAINIAN JOURNALISTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

February 25, 2021<\/p>\n

We, the undersigned organisations, stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, but particularly Ukrainian journalists who now find themselves at the frontlines of a large-scale European war.<\/em><\/p>\n

We unilaterally condemn the violence and aggression that puts thousands of our colleagues all over Ukraine in grave danger.<\/em><\/p>\n

We call on the international community to provide any possible assistance to those who are taking on the brave role of reporting from the war zone that is now Ukraine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We condemn the physical violence, cyberattacks, disinformation and all other weapons employed by the aggressor against the free and democratic Ukrainian press.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We also stand in solidarity with independent Russian media who continue to report the truth in unprecedented conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Signed:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Justice for Journalists Foundation<\/li>\n
  2. Index on Censorship<\/li>\n
  3. International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech \u201cAdil Soz\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. International Media Support (IMS)<\/li>\n
  5. Yerevan Press Club<\/li>\n
  6. Turkmen.news<\/li>\n
  7. Free Press Unlimited<\/li>\n
  8. Human Rights Center \u201cViasna\u201d<\/li>\n
  9. Albanian Helsinki Committee<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0Media Rights Group, Azerbaijan<\/li>\n
  11. \u00a0European Centre for Press and Media Freedom<\/li>\n
  12. \u00a0Association of European Journalists<\/li>\n
  13. \u00a0School of Peacemaking and Media Technology in Central Asia<\/li>\n
  14. \u00a0Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan<\/li>\n
  15. \u00a0Reporters Without Borders, RSF<\/li>\n
  16. \u00a0Association of Independent Press of Moldova, API<\/li>\n
  17. \u00a0Public Association \u201cDignity\u201d, Kazakhstan<\/li>\n
  18. \u00a0PEN International<\/li>\n
  19. \u00a0Human Rights House Foundation, Norway<\/li>\n
  20. \u00a0IFEX<\/li>\n
  21. \u00a0UNITED for Intercultural Action<\/li>\n
  22. \u00a0Human Rights House Yerevan<\/li>\n
  23. \u00a0Helsinki Citizens\u2019 Assembly, Vanadzor, Armenia<\/li>\n
  24. \u00a0Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Norway<\/li>\n
  25. \u00a0Society of Journalists, Warsaw<\/li>\n
  26. \u00a0The Swedish OSCE-network<\/li>\n
  27. \u00a0Hungarian Helsinki Committee<\/li>\n
  28. \u00a0Legal policy research centre, Kazakhstan<\/li>\n
  29. \u00a0Public Foundation Notabene, Tajikistan<\/li>\n
  30. \u00a0HR NGO \u201cCitizens\u2019 Watch, St. Petersburg, Russia<\/li>\n
  31. \u00a0English PEN<\/li>\n
  32. \u00a0Public organization \u201cDawn\u201d, Tajikistan<\/li>\n
  33. \u00a0International Press Institute (IPI)<\/li>\n
  34. \u00a0The Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan<\/li>\n
  35. ARTICLE 19<\/li>\n
  36. Human Rights House Tbilisi<\/li>\n
  37. Rights Georgia<\/li>\n
  38. Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center, Azerbaijan<\/li>\n
  39. International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)<\/li>\n
  40. Bulgarian Helsinki Committee<\/li>\n
  41. Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)<\/li>\n
  42. European Federation of Journalists<\/li>\n
  43. Social Media Development Center, Georgia<\/li>\n
  44. Populus Rei, Georgia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The AEJ has co-signed the statement of solidarity with our colleagues in Ukraine below, and is separately and independently\u00a0calling for the immediate ban on\u00a0Russia Today\u00a0broadcasts in all EU countries\u00a0as a blatant weapon of mis- and disinformation, among them the falsehood that Ukrainian President Zelensky has been instructed by the USA to flee Kyiv.\u00a0See resolution. Germany […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-positions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aej-bulgaria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}