{"id":66788,"date":"2024-09-17T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/17\/media-press-freedom-refugee-journalists-exile-mict-house-critical-voices-germany-schmerwitz"},"modified":"2024-09-17T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T07:00:37","slug":"this-is-a-big-chance-for-all-of-us-germanys-freedom-hotel-where-exiled-journalists-take-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66788","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is a big chance for all of us\u2019: Germany\u2019s freedom hotel where exiled journalists take refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abuses<\/p>\n<p>With its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but for a dozen journalists, photographers, social media activists and artists from Iran, Afghanistan, Kenya and South Africa, the House of Critical Voices is also a home.<\/p>\n<p>Political repression and a rising number of attacks on global press freedom have forced thousands of journalists to leave their countries in recent years. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/killed\/all\/?status=Killed&amp;motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&amp;motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&amp;type%5B%5D=Journalist&amp;type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&amp;start_year=2023&amp;end_year=2023&amp;group_by=year\">99 reporters killed<\/a> last year, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/17\/media-press-freedom-refugee-journalists-exile-mict-house-critical-voices-germany-schmerwitz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,458,221,533,59,448,669,1012,238,212,82,672,54,494,61,404,1014,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-censorship","category-europe","category-germany","category-global-development","category-iran","category-journalist-safety","category-kurds","category-media","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sudan","category-syria","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66789,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66788\/revisions\/66789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}