A conference on “Censorship in Greece” is organized by the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University in cooperation with the Office in Greece of The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. It is the first attempt in Greece to expand the research through uncovering, analyzing and documenting the phenomenon of censorship, in theory but also in terms of experience and practice.
Curated by the foreign affairs editorial staff at Radio Popolare, the fourth episode within the ECPMF project features Genc Kondi, director of the Albanian newspaper Shqiptarja, talking about the control of publishers by organised crime.
The Association of European journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ - Bulgaria), strongly reacted against the demand of deputy chairman of the Bulgarian Parliament - Dimiter Glavchev, who insists that the National Security Agency should investigate Mediapool.bg for its sources of information. “We believe that the deputy chairman’s appeal is a dangerous precedent that could force an atmosphere of intimidation and provoke self-censorship”, says the AEJ – Bulgaria.
Reporting over the bombings around the elections in Turkey was banned while the majority of media presented the ruling party AKP as the only owner and protector of the country. Meanwhile, the so-called “supporters of AKP“ attacked the Doğan media center, where offices of Hurriyet daily are located, while their columnist Ahmet Hakan was attacked in front of his house. In the pre-election period there were many other attacks and prosecutions against the journalists.
In his effort to pull his MP΄s closer to the government, and to secure their support in the upcoming bills, A.Tsipras attacked the main opposition party of ND and the mainstream media. At the same time he noted that the government continues onward according to plan; negating any scenarios of a short-lived left government or a grand coalition.
Is Serbia threatened by a "coup"? Sunday, the Interior Minister gave a press conference flanked by heavily armed police, while the Prime Minister subjected himself to the "lie detector" ...
In the letter, signed by 53 journalists from several Montenegrin media, it is recalled the chronology of the attack on Softić, a journalist for Vijesti, Monitor and Radio Berane
The syndicate of journalists and media workers is pushing for collective labor agreement between the workers and the owners. The aim of the agrement is to raise the rights of the workers and to maked unification od the rights for all media, overcoming the resistance of many media owners.
Statements made separately by IPI Turkey, Press Council, DİSK Press Labor, TGS and TGC, TGF and TYS have reacted against arrest of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül.
