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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

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.

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

Killings spark calls for protection of journalists covering conflict in Ukraine

29/05/2014

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

Mapping media freedom violations in Europe

27/05/2014

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

Seemo to Serbia: end the abuse of public funds for media

24/05/2014

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

EU freedom of expression guidelines welcomed, but criticised too

22/05/2014

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