The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned pressure directed against journalists in Kosovo amid last week’s elections. A crew from Silovo-based Radio Television Puls said a security guard at a municipal building in a village near Gjilan/Gnjilane, in eastern Kosovo, attacked them on Dec. 1 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today condemned Turkey’s prime minister’s accusation that a journalist was a traitor for revealing that the government secretly profiled and monitored citizens based on their religious beliefs and affiliations. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told a crowd that […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today expressed alarm at a spate of recent threats delivered via SMS messages to the mobile phone of journalist Milorad Bojovic from the Serbian weekly NS reporter. According to Bojovic, since Nov. 29 he has received more than 30 SMS […]

Vendepatria. Roughly translated: National sellout, traitor to the homeland, turncoat. That was the invective that greeted Ecuadorean investigative journalist Janeth Hinostroza as she arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City on Nov. 26 to accept an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ). The hurlers of the insult weren’t, […]