The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is expressing concern regarding the Belgrade appeals court ruling on July 1st, in which media outlet B92 was fined for defamation charges against the former Assistant Minister of Health Zorica Pavlovic
Pelin Batu has been laid off from her post at Milliyet newspaper. "Why a popular leader who can hardly keep 50 percent of his electors under control, is afraid of three or five journalists, columnists and reporters,” she told Bianet.
Proposed amendments to Bulgaria's Penal Code that would criminalise the spreading of misleading information about banks and financial institutions could undermine freedom of expression and allow censorship to gain even more ground, experts have warned
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
