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Turkey: Letter Reveals Assassination Plot Against Columnists

30/09/2014

An unstamped letter delivered at the premisses of T24 news website revealed an assassination plot against prominent columnists Aydın Engin and Murat Belge

Montenegro Media Union Urges End to Layoffs

30/09/2014

Montenegro's Media Union has expressed grave concern about the number of journalists who are losing their jobs every day, urging the government to act

Is press censorship in Serbia “worse than the 1990s”?

29/09/2014

Six months after Aleksandar Vucic came to power, there are worrying signs that freedom of the media is deteriorating, Milana Knezevic writes

SEEMO expresses concern over media freedom developments in Serbia

29/09/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is concerned over media freedom developments in Serbia.

The Oxygen Method in Europe. New lenses to see the hidden censorship

25/09/2014

Ossigeno per l’Informazione has published the manual "The new lenses against censorship" showing in detail the method of monitoring developed by Ossigeno and experienced in Italy, and its results

SEEMO deeply concerned over privacy rights violations in Turkey

16/09/2014

The South East Europe Media Organization has expressed its deep concern regarding two new articles on the subject of internet laws, that were adopted on 10 September 2014 in Turkey.

Turkey: Strike Down Abusive Internet Measures

15/09/2014

New legal amendments giving the Turkish authorities broad powers to block websites and to amass users’ internet activity data should be overturned, Human Rights Watch said today

SEEMO to hold press freedom conference in Romania

12/09/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today announced that it will hold a one-day conference on press freedom, the influence of politics on media, and corruption on 23 September 2014 in Bucharest, Romania

Turkey: enemy of the Internet?

03/09/2014

This year the 9th annual Internet Governance Forum is ongoing in Istanbul till 5 September. Reporters without Borders is there to denounce the increasing violations of freedom of information in Turkey and to argue that respect for this freedom should be at the heart of any Internet governance model

SEEMO alarmed at threats made towards a reporter in Kosovo

01/09/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe, is concerned to learn about the threats made to Visar Duriqi, a Kosovo journalist