Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

SEEMO/IPI: Serb minority weekly Novosti under siege in Croatia

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned about, and strongly condemns, the recent telephone and Email threats to the Croatian weekly Novosti. According to information received by […]

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Four years on, IPI recalls unsolved murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya

Four years after Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow her killers have yet to be brought to justice. Repeatedly criticised by rights groups over its handling of the case, the Russian government recently announced it was reinvigorating the investigation, […]

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Guest blog: Sri Lankan newspaper managing director speaks of legal persecution after brother’s death

In 2008, the Sunday Leader carried a few articles on investigations by the newspaper exposing irregularities on the part of the government of Sri Lanka related to the purchase of arms and aircraft. One such expose referred to the purchase of four MIG aircraft from Ukraine. The same four aircraft had been rejected by the then tender […]

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New bomb attack on home of radio journalist in Kosovo

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the second bomb attack at the house of Caslav Milisavljevic, editor-in-chief of Radio Kosovska Mitrovica, in the Kosovo municipality of Zvecan. According […]

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