October took our fellows from a recording studio to a meeting room: one of them joined Radio Sakharov’s Sergey Lukashevsky for a conversation at CORRECTIV, and we welcomed a delegation of Arab journalists visiting Germany with the Goethe-Institut. Meanwhile, the Coalition Against Transnational Repression in Germany kept working through a cyberattack on its own website.
On air with Radio Sakharov
On 16 October, one of our fellows sat down with Sergey Lukashevsky at the CORRECTIV studio in Berlin. Sergey led Moscow’s Sakharov Centre for 15 years until Russian authorities liquidated it in 2023. Today he is editor-in-chief of Radio Sakharov, an online media project of CORRECTIV.Exile that brings uncensored, independent information to audiences in Russia — through an app the regime struggles to block, and via satellite.
They talked about the state of independent journalism in Russia and around the world, and about ways to work together.
For exiled journalists, conversations like this are a way to keep reaching audiences back home. We are grateful to Sergey and the CORRECTIV.Exile team for opening their studio to us.
Meeting Arab journalists with the Goethe-Institut
On 6 October, JAM hosted a delegation of journalists from Arab countries visiting Berlin for the German-Arab Exchange on Media Freedom and Journalism, an information tour organised by the Goethe-Institut at the invitation of the Federal Foreign Office. Under the theme Support for Journalists in Exile in Germany, we talked about JAM’s work with exiled journalists, about transnational repression, and about the work of the Coalition Against Transnational Repression in Germany. It was a warm and open conversation, and we agreed to stay in touch with our guests.
Coalition: research, resilience — and a cyberattack
The Coalition Against Transnational Repression in Germany, which JAM co-founded, began October under attack. On 2 October, the coalition’s website went offline after a cybersecurity incident. Its members said the coalition takes any attempt to disrupt access to information or hinder civil society very seriously, warned supporters to watch for phishing and fraud attempts, and kept working without interruption. The site is back online. Read the statement
Coalition news in brief
- ECPMF published a factsheet on how journalists in exile are targeted across Europe. Read
- LDSF released Beyond Counterterrorism, on how Egypt uses counterterrorism laws to silence critics abroad. Read
- UN Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova called for a UN convention on transnational repression after documenting nearly 400 Russian cases. Read
- Just Security warned that generative AI is making surveillance of diaspora communities faster and cheaper. Read
Find all coalition updates at stop-transnational-repression.de.
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