The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), remains concerned about pending legal changes to Slovakia’s media law. According to information before SEEMO, Slovakia’s parliamentary Committee for Culture and the Media on 26 […]

On 15 December, the Bratislava regional court ruled that the daily Sme must pay three million Slovak koruny (approx. 77,395 EUR) as compensation to Supreme Court Judge Harald Stiffel for asserting that the judge was “partially responsible” for a sentence handed down to a Catholic priest in a “staged political trial” during the Communist regime. […]

H. E. Rudolf Schuster President Kancelaria prezidenta SR Hodzovo nam. 1 P.O. Box 128 810 00 Bratislava 1 Slovak Republic Fax: + 421 2 5441 7010 Vienna, 14 July 2003 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives, and leading journalists from over 115 countries, strongly condemns the illegal […]

H.E. Rudolf Schuster President Bratislava Slovak Republic Fax: + 421 7 544 17 532 Vienna, 4 December 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives, is concerned at the threat of the prosecutor’s office to pursue an action for criminal libel against a Slovakian journalist. […]