The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today expressed alarm at the attempted murder of journalist Milot Hasimja yesterday at a television studio in Kosovo. Local reports said that a man entered the newsroom of the headquarters of private broadcaster Klan Kosova in Pristina and repeatedly stabbed Hasimja in the head and neck as the […]

The South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), the Media Program South East Europe of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the Central European Initiative (CEI) announce the VIII South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF), to be held Oct. 16-18, 2014 in Skopje. The event will bring together media CEOs, […]

Amid major protests that began last month in the streets of Hong Kong and that call into question issues of freedom of expression, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA ) has said that press freedom in the autonomous region have deteriorated and have called 2014 “the darkest [year] for press freedom for several decades.” In […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the adoption last week of a United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on safety of journalists, which highlights states as primary duty-bearers when it comes to preventing and halting attacks against journalists. This is the second time that the HRC, which includes representatives from 47 UN member states, […]