The Greek authorities are continuing to pursue criminal charges against German journalists over material that appeared in Germany’s FOCUS magazine, and on its website, FOCUS online. The journalists had criticised Greece over the debt crisis in two articles and a travel feature. A number of Greek lawyers subsequently claimed that as Greek citizens they had […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), praises the prompt arrest of the police officer who allegedly attacked a professional female photographer covering an anti-austerity rally in Athens on 5 October 2011. Pictures appear to show the policeman hitting Tatiana Bolari, who works for the Athens […]

Vienna, 22 August 2011 – The Vienna-based South East Europe Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns the detention of two journalists in northwestern Greece. On 16 August 2011, the Skopje-based journalists, Goran Momirovski of Kanal 5 television and Milena Gjorgjievska, a journalist with the daily Vest, accompanied a group of […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) calls for nominations for the 2011 Dr. Erhard Busek – SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South, Eastern and Central Europe. Eligible to be nominated are journalists, editors, media executives, media experts, writers or journalism trainers in South Eastern Europe, who have contributed to promoting better understanding in […]