Since its launch at the end of May, over 170 cases have been submitted on the Ushahidi crowd-sourcing platform promoted by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and Index on Censorship
An ongoing smear campaign launched by Belgrade-based daily newspaper Informer against prominent Montenegrin activist Vanja Ćalović has sparked indignation and criticism
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) said that an incident of late 2012, in which journalists were forcibly removed from parliament, would be referred to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) called on the Serbian police to investigate all cases of hacker-attacks in Serbia in the past weeks. Numerous information that blogs in Serbia have suffered DDoS and other hacker-attacks, are alarming.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the sentences handed down to five individuals for the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, but called for the investigation to continue to bring the masterminds to justice.
Job insecurity and inadequate protection are among the problems that journalists in the seven countries created from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia face today, a report published by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on May 22nd suggests
Mourning the deaths of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrei Mironov, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović stressed on May 25th the need of ensuring the safety of journalists working in conflict zones in Ukraine
Index on Censorship, (London, United Kingdom) and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, (Rovereto, Italy) have launched mediafreedom.ushahidi.com, a website that will enable the reporting and mapping of media freedom violations across the 28 EU countries plus candidate countries
The South East Europe Media Organisation is supporting the Serbian Media Coalition that sent a request on 30 April to the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information and the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, demanding that they take all necessary steps to end the abuse of public funds that are intended for the media at the local level
