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Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists

28/03/2025

Further alarm about the deepening press freedom crisis: revelations showing evidence of the abuse of advanced Pegasus spyware

Serbia: MFRR media freedom mission to visit Belgrade and Novi Sad

28/03/2025

The partners organisation of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) will conduct a mission to Serbia between 7-9 April to meet with journalists, media stakeholders and law enforcement authorities amidst a rapidly worsening media freedom crisis.

Serbia: unpunished attacks on journalist Dinko Gruhonjić persist, impunity must end

14/03/2025

The members of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium and partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform are deeply concerned about the ongoing year-long persecution campaign against journalist Dinko Gruhonjić, programme Director of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina (NDNV) and Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad

MFRR and SJN condemn adoption of foreign agent legislation in Bosnia’s entity Republika Srpska

05/03/2025

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners and SafeJournalists Network (SJN) strongly condemn the adoption of legislation in the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina which will establish a "special registry” of NGOs, many of which are independent media

Serbia: MFRR and SJN urgently call to stop targeting and intimidating journalists

03/03/2025

OBCT, together with its partners from the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the SafeJournalists Network (SJN), strongly condemns the increasing and systematic attacks on journalists and NGOs in Serbia

Croatia: Tackling political pressure, legal challenges and precarity to revive media freedom

24/02/2025

Outdated media laws, compromised public media independence, SLAPPs, as well as mounting economic, political, and physical pressures are undermining journalism and media freedom in Croatia, as outlined in the latest Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) report

Ukraine: MFRR partners stand with journalists, 3 years since start of full-scale invasion

24/02/2025

On 24 February 2025, Ukraine marks three years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. While the current scale of Russian attacks against journalists cannot be compared to that at the start of the war, they remain worryingly high and persistent

Call for Applications: Intern – SLAPP Monitoring in Italy

20/02/2025

OBCT offers a paid internship focused on freedom of expression in Italy

Italy: MFRR calls for full transparency after Fanpage editor-in-chief surveilled with spyware technology

18/02/2025

The partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today urge Italian authorities to shed full light on the recent surveillance of an editor-in-chief in Italy and others using spyware technology developed by Israeli firm Paragon Solutions.

MFRR Monitoring Report 2024

12/02/2025

The latest annual Monitoring Report analyses the press freedom situation in 35 European countries, including the 27 EU Member States and nine countries with EU candidate status. Between January and December 2024, Mapping Media Freedom documented 1,548 press freedom violations targeting 2,567 media-related persons or entities – an alarming increase compared to the 1,153 violations recorded in 2023