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The Balkans home to nearly half of media freedom violations in Europe

09/07/2014

Since its launch at the end of May, over 170 cases have been submitted on the Ushahidi crowd-sourcing platform promoted
by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and Index on Censorship

SEEMO condemns the arrest of Albanian journalist in Skopje

07/07/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), condemns the arrest of Besim Ibrahimi, a journalist of the daily paper Lajm

Azerbaijan from where Aliyev stands

03/07/2014 -  Arzu Geybullayeva

Baku currently chairs the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights organization, while cracking down on political prisoners at home

Tabloid's offensive campaign against Montenegrin activist condemned

27/06/2014

An ongoing smear campaign launched by Belgrade-based daily newspaper Informer against prominent Montenegrin activist Vanja Ćalović has sparked indignation and criticism

Macedonian journalists to seek justice in Strasbourg

18/06/2014

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) said that an incident of late 2012, in which journalists were forcibly removed from parliament, would be referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

Seemo calls police to investigate in Serbia on DDoS attacks

10/06/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) called on the Serbian police to investigate all cases of hacker-attacks in Serbia in the past weeks. Numerous information that blogs in Serbia have suffered DDoS and other hacker-attacks, are alarming.

OSCE media freedom representative welcomes sentences in Politkovskaya case, calls to bring masterminds to justice

10/06/2014

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the sentences handed down to five individuals for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, but called for the investigation to continue to bring the masterminds to justice.

Bulgaria, the Decline in Media Freedom

10/06/2014 -  Francesco Martino Sofia

In Bulgaria, freedom of the press and expression has dramatically declined in recent years. Among the principle causes are media concentration, self-censorship and pressure on journalists. We spoke about this with Professor Orlin Spasov

Report paints gloomy picture of media situation in Balkans

05/06/2014

Job insecurity and inadequate protection are among the problems that journalists in the seven countries created from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia face today, a report published by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on May 22nd suggests

Serbia: the Internet under censorship attack

06/06/2014 -  Dragan Janjić Belgrade

The Serbian government is facing increasingly frequent accusations of web censorship. The interventions by the OSCE and the European Commission, the reactions of prime minister Vučić