ECPMF news

OSCE decries eccessive court measures against Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2

12/08/2015

Freezing the assets of the Georgian television channel Rustavi 2 following an ownership dispute threatens media pluralism in the country, warns OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Azerbaijan: journalist Rasim Aliyev dies after beating

11/08/2015

Independent Azeri journalist Rasim Aliyev dies in Baku, after being beaten following his criticism against a local football player

OSCE condemns attack against journalist reporting on migrants in Macedonia

29/07/2015

OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media condemns the attack on journalist Cornelia Krebs, who was reporting on border migration issues in Macedonia

HRW: Media Freedom Under Attack in the Western Balkans

28/07/2015

The Human Rights Watch report documents the hostile environment in which journalists work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia

Journalist Dismissed from Milliyet Daily Newspaper for his criticism on Suruç Explosion

24/07/2015

Milliyet Daily Newspaper dismissed journalist Kadri Gürsel who was allegedly accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Suruç Explosion.

Protecting journalists. Government progress at the Rome Conference

23/07/2015

It is necessary to help journalists resist to the low-intensity war they fight everyday. A report from the Ossigeno conference held in Rome on the 2nd of July.

Journalists under threat, the Geybullayeva case

22/07/2015 -  Arzu Geybullayeva

For expressing criticism against the Azerbaijan government and collaborating with Armenian newspapers and NGOs, our correspondent Arzu Geybullayeva has been repeatedly threatened and labeled as “traitor”

Serbia: the beginning and end of Radio B92

27/07/2015 -  Antonela Riha Belgrade

On July 9th, the owners of B92, Belgrade's historic radio and bastion of resistance to Milošević's power in the nineties, introduced drastic changes, ultimately turning off a myth of the Serbian media

European journalists and cartoonists stand up for media freedom in Berlin

10/07/2015

Together, they will create an educational online platform to support young media makers and a comic book about press freedom in their countries

OSCE Representative welcomes new draft for journalists’ ethics code in Montenegro, addresses issues of journalists’ safety and impunity

07/07/2015

Speaking at the end of her two-day visit to Montenegro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović welcomed the new draft Code of Ethics for Montenegrin journalists