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Serbia: “The court shows a clear intention to release those accused of murdering journalist Ćuruvija"

03/07/2018

Veran Matić, president of the Commission for the Investigation of the Murder of Journalists in Serbia, assessed that the progression of the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, which has been ongoing for more than three years, suggests the acquittal of those accused of the murder, which took place in April 1999.

Montenegro: sacking of director-general Andrijana Kadija renews political interference in public broadcaster

14/06/2018

A new alarm has been raised about the politicization of public service media in Montenegro (Radiotelevizija Crne Gore, RTCG), following the dismissal of director general, Andrijana Kadija

I Subscribe – to support independent journalism in Turkey

13/06/2018

Global campaign launches with call to subscribe to secular daily Cumhuriyet

LGBT rights in the Balkans: what is still missing

17/05/2018

The last annual review of ILGA-Europe, the European LGBT umbrella organization, praises most Balkan countries for the laws that they have introduced – but implementation is still poor and further steps are needed

Suicides in prison are less frequent in the Balkans than in the rest of Europe

16/05/2018

The suicide rate in the prisons of South-East Europe is low compared to the other European countries, in part because of the different composition of the prison population.

A Wikipedia online contest on Media Freedom

03/05/2018

On the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, which is celebrated today, OBCT launches an online contest to translate and improve articles on media freedom on Wikipedia

Cumhuriyet trial: the crime is journalism

27/04/2018

OBCT signs a joint statement to call on the institutions of the Council of Europe to remind Turkey of its international obligation to respect human rights

EU-Turkey Summit in Bulgaria: symbolic accreditation issued for jailed Turkish journalists

22/03/2018

Days ahead of the EU-Turkey summit in Varna (Bulgaria), the Bulgarian section of the Association of European Journalists held a symbolic action in solidarity with media professionals currently detained in Turkey, demanding their immediate release

New fund to support EU investigative journalism launched

19/03/2018

A fund of up to €450,000 to support cross-border investigative journalism in the European Union is being launched today by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and the International Press Institute (IPI)

A letter from 38 Nobel Laureates to Erdoğan

01/03/2018

38 Nobel Laureates wrote an open letter to the Turkish president to call for the release of writers and intellectuals imprisoned after the 2016 attempted coup. Explicit mention is made of journalists Nazlı Ilıcak and brothers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan