Public Prosecutor of İstanbul drafted an indictment against 18 journalists from 9 newspapers for “propagandizing of a terrorist organization” and demanded journalists to be sentenced to 1.5 to 7.5 years in prison.
İstanbul 3rd Administrative Court convicted the Ministry of the Interior to compensate with 825 euro the photo-journalist Mehmet Kaçmaz, injured by a rubber bullet fired by police during Gezi Park Resistance.
Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) has started checking the finances of all print media, going back five years. The statement comes only a day after daily newspaper "Sega" claimed that its accounts were being audited by the NRA and claimed that it was a consequence of the newspaper’s critical position regarding a number of government decisions.
The Vijesti journalist Tufik Softić is sueing Montenegro. Years after the attacks against him, one of which was classified as an attempted murder, the state still fails in seizing the culprits.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has an media army behind him. Many have a direct line to Kremlin, and chief editors are regularly briefed about content that needs to be published. Everything depends on Putin.
The Union of Bulgarian Journalists insists on legal protection of journalists after the closing of "Presa" Daily and "Tema" magazine. The organization is worried that more than 100 journalist will lose their jobs. The Union of Bulgarian Journalists protests against the media monopoly in Bulgaria.
For 25 years, a different voice had resonated on the radio waves in Serbia. Radio B92, the Belgrade radio station well-known among the opponents of the Milošević regime in the 90s, has closed down last July 9th after a long process of privatization.
24vesti reportage on the possible ways to professionalise the public broadcasting service. The story includes the opinions of the EU Ambassador in Macedonia, syndicate of the media professionals, and some of the political parties.
