Sam Patten, the Senior Program Manager for Eurasia at Freedom House, testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commisssion on threats to media freedom in the OSCE Region on June 9. Patten sounded a call to action against the growing threats to independent media throughout the 56 member countries of the OSCE. Comparing state censorship to a spreading cancer, Patten decried an erosion of media freedoms in former Soviet and Western European states. In order to roll back the tide of media restrictions, Patten urged the U.S. and the other nations of the OSCE to mobilize in defense of media freedom.

Pattens full testimony can be accessed here.