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.
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 99 reporters killed last year, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.
