The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today urged a commission responsible for writing a new Constitution for Turkey to reject proposed amendments that would severely weaken current language protecting media freedom. Bianet reported that Turkey’s Constitutional Reconciliation Commission is set to vote Wednesday on a proposal […]

The Federal High Court in Ethiopia yesterday upheld a ban on last week’s edition of Feteh newspaper, according to news reports and journalists. The court said the ban met the criteria set out in Article 42 of Ethiopia’s 2008 Freedom of the Mass Media and Access to Information Proclamation, which allows prosecutors to seize any publication that […]

Two journalists were reported missing this week in Latin America: one in Mexico and one in Colombia. Miguel Morales Estrada, who works as a photojournalist for the daily Diario de Poza Rica and as a freelancer for the newspaper Tribuna Papanteca in Papantla in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, was last seen Thursday in Veracruz. […]

More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many top politicians and party leaders in South East Europe are still struggling to live with criticism. Instead, they continue to publicly accuse journalists of undermining national interests, treason, mafia ties, conspiracies etc. The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of […]