Serbian journalists have joined under the parole "Journalist don't kneel" against chauvinist declaration from public figures. The initiative follows the remarks addressed by the Defense minister to a journalist, asking her to knee in front of him. The broadcast discusses the protest and the state of journalism in Serbia, with journalists Zoran Nikolić and Stevan Vlajić and Zlatko Minić from Transperancy Serbia.
Many journalists and photographers joined the protest organized on Monday in several cities around Serbia, including Belgrade, Novi Sad, Čačak, Šabac and Niš, to denounce the serious deterioration of the freedom of the media and the increasing political pressure exerted by the ruling party, the SNS.
Romania occupies a rather flattering 52nd position in the ranking by Reporters Without Borders on press freedom. In the Balkans, only Slovenia ranks better. However, Romanian journalists face several pressures both from political and economic sources. But social networks change the traditional media. An analysis by the director of the Centre for Independent Journalism in Romania, Ioana Adavani.
A survey about Romanian newsstands reveals the dramatic situation of newspapers' industry in Romania: newspapers are almost gone, and the shops offer mainly entertainment magazines and... toys.
Human Rights Action (HRA) and Tufik Softić’s lawyer, Dalibor Tomović, have asked the Supreme State Prosecutor of Montenegro to establish responsibility for the failures in the investigation of the attack perpetrated in 2007. The case was suspended in November last year for lack of evidence.
DİHA reporter İdris Yılmaz has been arrested as he was following up report in Van. He has been released by the court pending a trial from the case he was being tried over “Propagandizing for [illegal] organization”.
The bulgarian journalist Stoian Tonchev was brutally beaten by a group of men in Pomorie. They warned him to stop doing his work in a local online edition.
Over 500 journalists including Can Dündar and Erdem Gül have supported the academics being targeted and prosecuted for releasing a declaration calling for peace and resume of negotiations.
