H.E. Vojislav Kostunica Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro Fax: +381 11 3617 609   H.E. Zoran Stojkovic Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro Fax: +381 11 3616 419; 685 672 Vienna, 19 August 2005 Your Excellencies,   The Vienna-based South East Europe Media […]

According to information before the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, several Polish and Belarusian journalists of Polish descent were recently harassed and detained in the Belarusian cities of Schuchin and Grodno. On 1 August, Belarusian police arrested Andrzej Pisalnik, editor-in-chief of Glos znad Niemna, a Polish minority […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is concerned about draft amendments to the Broadcast Act, which the Government of Serbia intends to put before Parliament. SEEMO is informed that the Serbian […]

On 18 July, the Media and Information Commission (MIC) refused to grant Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) an operating licence to resume publication of the Daily News and its sister paper, the Daily News on Sunday, both of which were shut down in September 2003 for violating sections of the 2002 Access to Information and […]