Targeting of the Slovak press through civil defamation lawsuits is causing widespread concern among journalists that they cannot do their jobs without fear of reprisal, the International Press Institute warns in a report published today. The report details other concerns, including a right-of-reply law and verbal attacks on the media made by leading politicians. In […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the excessive fine handed down 30 March 2009 by the Court in Nis, Serbia, in a defamation case against Dragana Kocic and Timosenko Milosavljevic, journalist and editor-in-chief, respectively, for the Serbian daily newspaper, Narodnih Novina. Together, the journalist and editor-in-chief must pay a fine of 1,000,000 […]

A Gambian court’s decision to dismiss charges of publishing false information against journalist Pap Saine was a positive step in reversing government efforts to intimidate the co-founder of a leading independent newspaper, the International Press Institute said today. But the editor of The Point still faces separate proceedings in which he is accused of falsifying citizenship documents, […]

A decade after the murder of outspoken Serbian editor Slavko Curuvija, the International Press Institute and the South East Europe Media Organisation today again called for justice for the journalist, whose killers have not been found. Curuvija was gunned down on Serbian Orthodox Easter Sunday. In the six months prior to his death, the journalist’s […]