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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

SEEMO concerned over attacks on Serbian portal pescanik.net

29/08/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is concerned to learn about the new hacker attacks on the Serbian website pescanik.net

The Struggle for Turkey's Internet

27/08/2014

Turkey is a battleground state for Internet regulation, according to a Freedom House report released in advance of the Internet Governance Forum

Serbian Tabloid Targets BIRN after Airline Revelations

21/08/2014

The pro-government tabloid ‘Informer’ has published a series of allegations about the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, following its investigation into a secret government contract with the UAE’s Etihad Airways

Why we’re boycotting the Internet Governance Forum

21/08/2014

Renowned Turkish internet rights advocates are boycotting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - a high-profile, United Nations-mandated annual conference on issues surrounding governance of the Internet held this year in Istanbul. They explain why in this open letter

Azerbaijan: Letter from imprisoned human rights activist Rasul Jafarov

20/08/2014

The renowned Azerbaijani dissident, held at a pre-trial detention centre in the capital Baku, has written an appeal to the international community

International monitors: media coverage of Turkish presidential election "biased"

18/08/2014

According to international election observers, Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's use of his official position, coupled with biased media coverage, gave him a distinct advantage in the country's first direct presidential election

SEEMO calls Montenegrin authorities to react to threats the journalist Jelena Jovanovic has been receiving since beginning August

13/08/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is urging the authorities in Montenegro to react immediately to threats the journalist Jelena Jovanovic has been receiving from an anonymous profile page on Facebook

Turkish media: rise in layoffs and attacks

11/08/2014

Nearly three times more journalists were fired in Turkey in the second quarter of 2014 as compared to the same period last year, the latest quarterly media monitoring report by Istanbul-based non-profit news portal Bianet showed

SEEMO calls for investigation in the attack case on an editor-in-chief

05/08/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), once again is asking for an professional investigation by the authorities over the physical attack on Davor Pasalic, an editor of the Serbian news agency Fonet