A few days ahead of 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, the 14 partner organisations of the Council of Europe Platform for the Protection of Journalists today publish their annual report and warn that “attacks on press freedom in Europe are at serious risk of becoming a new normal”.
While “a growing pattern of intimidation to silence journalists” was already apparent from the alerts submitted in 2019, the pandemic that has marked the last few weeks has accelerated this trend by...