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SEEMO condemns verbal attack on journalist by president of Republika Srpska

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today called on Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to respect press freedom as an essential democratic right. On June 2, 2012, Dodik asked Ljiljana Kovacevic, the local correspondent of the Belgrade-based […]

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Journalists Eynulla Fatullayev, Nedim Sener to speak at IPI World Congress

The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that formerly-imprisoned journalists Eynulla Fatullayev of Azerbaijan and Nedim Sener of Turkey will speak at IPI’s annual World Congress – which will take place from June 23 to 26 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – about their experiences behind bars. Fatullayev and Sener were released over […]

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EDITORIAL: A Danger to Democracy

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein’s decision to charge Haaretz reporter Uri Blau with “serious espionage” for being in possession of classified Israel Defense Forces documents poses a palpable threat to the free press in Israel, particularly to the ability to criticize government actions and expose them to the public. As we wrote here a year ago, […]

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Colombian rebels free French correspondent

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, according to its Spanish acronym), freed reporter Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, May 30, after taking him as a “prisoner of war” on April 28. As IPI reported earlier, Langlois is a correspondent for France 24 and Le Figaro, and was taken hostage during crossfire between FARC guerrillas and Colombian government […]

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