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Arrested journalist Hayri Tunç, who had been put on trial on charges of “propagandizing for terrorist organizations” on social media, has been released following the first hearing.
Macedonian media have signed a charter of ethical reporting, but some of them keep on violating the code and reporting unprofessionally. The Council on Media Ethics adopted 21 decisions on complaints regarding reports of TV stations, newspapers and Internet portals.
The ambassador Rowning of OSCE in Tirana said it's abnormal to infinitely delay the appointment of the general director of RTSH. The Parliament is trying to find the right official to serve politics, not people.
Giogos Kosmopoulos, Director of Amnesty International Greek Division talks to Christos Ntatsios about some of the key issues in the Annual report of Amnesty International regarding the conditions of Human Rights in Europe, freedom of expression included
Regulations on privatization of the media in Serbia are not applied properly, according to what emerged at the conference "Civil Society on Media", organized by Civic Initiatives and the OSCE. For instance, the news agency Tanjug still broadcasts news though it should be extinguished after unsuccessful privatization.
In ten years, Albanian journalists have seen their work conditions worsening, their organizations being too weak to protect them from media owners' arbitrariness, threats from criminal people and lack of protection from state institutions.
The Ustasha salute "Ready for the motherland!" is back in the center of the Croatian capital, and it is mostly chanted by the demonstrators - mostly war veterans - led by Velimir Bujanec. Bujanec, a declared Nazi from the Nineties, depicted in a Nazi uniform with a "swastika" on the sleeve, is now presenting, in a similar vein, the Sunday television show "Bujica".
