World Press Freedom Day

3 May is World Press Freedom Day; a day to celebrate the fundamental principle of press freedom and to defend the media workers facing attacks on their independence and their safety.

To mark the day, we invite to a presentation of the new World Press Freedom Index – a snapshot of the media freedom situation in the world - andtake a closer look at two of the worst countries for journalist: Iran and Russia.

Iran, the home country of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, ranked as number 177 of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index last year, and is one of the world’s biggest jailers of journalists. Russia, where Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021, Dmitry Muratov, was editor of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has banned all independent media and forced hundreds of journalists into exile. 

Speakers:

Ami Hedenborg, Board member, Reporters Without Borders, Sweden

Nahid Persson Sarvestani, Director of the film Son of the Mullah, about Iranian journalist Rohollah Zam

Olesya Shmagun, Award winning journalist, Novaya Gazeta

The event is hosted in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Embassy of Sweden in Norway.

The event will be held in english.