Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Five arrested in Denmark over alleged plot to attack newspaper building

Five people have been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of planning to kill as many people as possible in a building housing a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons of Prophet Mohammed that outraged Muslims across the world, Reuters reported on Wednesday. “It is our assessment that this is a militant Islamist group and […]

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SEEMO/IPI Press Release: Four suspects in brutal attack on Jutarnji List journalist Dusan Miljus captured

The South and East Europe Media Organisation, (SEEMO) a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is pleased to hear that the police have detained the alleged perpetrators of the brutal attack on Jutarnji List journalist Dusan Miljus. On 22 December […]

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Belarus authorities obstruct media coverage

About 20 local and foreign journalists were beaten and jailed in Minsk last week by Belarusian authorities after an opposition rally that followed the announcement of President Alexander Lukashenko’s reelection victory, according to estimates from the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ). Most of those arrested are to remain in custody between five and 15 days. […]

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Journalist Lumturie Blakaj physically assaulted in Kosovo

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South, East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about the physical assault on Lumturie Blakaj, journalist working for the daily newspaper Zeri, in Kosovo. According to Blakaj, she was attacked […]

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