The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) said today that it was troubled by ongoing threats against a Kosovo journalist by self-professed former militants and it called on authorities in Pristina to hold the perpetrators accountable. Local sources told SEEMO that Serbeze Haxhiaj, a journalist with public radio Radio Kosova, part of Radio Television […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomed Ethiopia’s release from prison of journalist Reeyot Alemu and five individuals in the Zone 9 bloggers case this week, but it urged the government to release other journalists and to re-examine anti-terror laws used to prosecute them. Alemu was released yesterday, while three journalists and two bloggers accused in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 27 other free expression and human rights groups on the second anniversary of the unsolved killing of Russian editor Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev in Dagestan to repeat a call for Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee to take charge of the investigation. The groups initially made the request in a letter sent to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today said that the Lithuanian Parliament’s recent decision to remove two insult articles from its Criminal Code is a positive step, but called on lawmakers to completely eliminate criminal defamation in the country. Parliament on June 25 approved legislation to remove Arts. 155 and 290, which criminalised insult and insult […]