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 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.
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
Mourning the deaths of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrei Mironov, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović stressed on May 25th the need of ensuring the safety of journalists working in conflict zones in Ukraine
Index on Censorship, (London, United Kingdom) and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, (Rovereto, Italy) have launched mediafreedom.ushahidi.com, a website that will enable the reporting and mapping of media freedom violations across the 28 EU countries plus candidate countries
The South East Europe Media Organisation is supporting the Serbian Media Coalition that sent a request on 30 April to the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information and the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, demanding that they take all necessary steps to end the abuse of public funds that are intended for the media at the local level
The new EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression online and offline were generally welcomed, but also criticized by some over what they saw as an important omission
Der Spiegel magazine has withdrawn its reporter from Turkey, Hasnain Kazim, after he received death threats over a report in the wake of the Soma disaster last week, German media reported May 20.
What’s at stake for freedom of expression and national security? A live-streamed panel discussion promoted by the Central European University of Budapest on May 16
Two Italian and two Turkish journalists, plus one of each Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia have been named as "information heroes," along with 91 other media professionals and activists from across the globe
