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The weekly "NIN" was fined "for damaging the reputation of Serbia's Minister of Interiors". A sentence that, warns CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks, could have negative impact on media freedom in the country

Recently established, the regional platform for media freedom in the Western Balkans warns about the increased use of physical violence as a tool of intimidation against journalists

Access Info Europe, a Madrid-based organization promoting access to information, filed a petition to the European Court of Justice asking the disclosure of the legal details of the EU-Turkey deal on migration

Crimea has had no independent media for two and a half years now - a Crimean journalist speaks out about the situation on condition of anonymity

Albanian and Belarusian journalists win CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2016

Cumhuriyet Newspaper Executive Board President Akın Atalay has been detained at Atatürk Airport where Atalay returned from abroad.

An edit-a-thon will take place in Belgrade on November 21st to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom in the largest open encyclopedia worldwide

Concerns about independence and sustainability of the public broadcaster, as Romania proposes to abolish the subscription fee and introduce direct funding of the public radio-television

Until 8 November 2016, threatened media freedom activists and journalists from EU and pre-accession countries can apply for the ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence-Programme

International and European Federations of Journalists and other partner media organisations of the Council of Europe Platform for the Safety of Journalists met in Strasbourg with the CoE's General Secretary