Israeli authorities must ensure that security forces do not harm journalists covering protests, and should investigate attacks by police officers and soldiers who shot journalists with rubber bullets, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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06. maj 2021.
EFJ calls for an ambitious European Media Freedom Act
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners in welcoming the idea of a European Media Freedom Act, advanced by European Commissioners Thierry Breton and Věra Jourová.
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30. apr 2021.
WPFD 2021: Attacks on press freedom growing bolder amid rising authoritarianism
Collective action needed to stop domino effect of silencing independent media
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19. apr 2021.
Attackers of Serbian radio host Daško Milinović must be prosecuted
Government officials in Serbia must condemn the brutal attack against journalist and radio host Daško Milinović that occurred in Novi Sad on April 16 and ensure that law enforcement authorities bring those responsible to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today.
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12. apr 2021.
Bodrozic: Someone does not want the truth about Curuvija murder to come out
The head of the Independent Association of Journalists (NUNS), Zeljko Bodrozic, said Sunday that 22 years after the murder of journalist and owner of "Dnevni Telegraf" and "Evropljanin" Slavko Curuvija, no one has been convicted of that crime.
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09. apr 2021.
Russia: Journalists covering Navalny’s imprisonment detained
CNN correspondent among detained for ‘violating public order’
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26. mar 2021.
Labelling of journalists in the Assembly continues, media and journalists’ organisations formed a Coalition for Joint Action
Coalition for Media Freedom has warned the public that in the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the campaign against journalists and non-governmental organisations has continued. Dangerous statements of the public officials and accusations against journalists of them running criminal, party and other campaigns against officials in the government only represents a continuation of the deterioration of the Serbia’s media scene.
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24. mar 2021.
Serbia: Groups condemn deafening silence of government over KRIK smear campaign
IPI and partner organisations express concern over lack of resolute response from working group
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17. mar 2021.
US Embassy, EU spokeswoman call for protection of Serbian journalists
The US Embassy in Serbia and a European Union spokesperson on Thursday called the Serbian authorities to allow investigative journalists to do their job free of threats and intimidation.
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13. mar 2021.
Serbia: MFRR condemns baseless smear campaign aimed at KRIK
The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in condemning the smear campaign aimed at the Network for Investigation of Crime and Corruption (KRIK) by pro-government media outlets which propagated the baseless and dangerous claim that KRIK has a ‘secret deal’ with Veljko Belivuk, a recently arrested leader of an organised crime group.
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12. mar 2021.
Smear Campaign Tries to Link Serbian Journalists to Criminal Network
Pro-government media in Serbia are attempting to discredit the investigative outlet KRIK by falsely linking it to the suspected leader of a criminal network, the site’s editor-in-chief says.
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11. mar 2021.
Matthew Caruana Galizia: It feels anxiety is never-ending. Those who are responsible for my mother death should be in jail
In an exclusive interview for Cenzolovka, Matthew Caruana Galizia talks about fighting the impunity for the killing of his mother, an investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, about journalists' threats and fears, about an effort of the past president of the European Commission to protect the former president of Malta, as well as about the importance of solidarity and the Daphne Project without which none of the perpetrators would likely be apprehended.
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25. feb 2021.
Serbia: Prison sentence for arson attack on journalist Milan Jovanovic
The Media Freedom Rapid Response coalition (MFRR) welcomes the verdict in the criminal case concerning the arson attack against Serbian journalist Milan Jovanovic, rendered on 23 February by the Second Basic Court in Belgrade.
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24. feb 2021.
CPJ welcomes sentencing in 2018 arson attack on Serbian journalist Milan Jovanović
In response to a Serbian court’s decision today sentencing former mayor Dragoljub Simonovic to more than four years in prison for ordering an arson attack on the home of journalist Milan Jovanović, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:
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24. feb 2021.
Judge Slavko Žugić – Justice at work
Dragoljub Simonovic, former mayor of Grocka, charged with the first-instance verdict for ordering burning of the house of journalist Milan Jovanovic, with lawyers Gostiljac, Vukovic, Zora Dobricanin and others, rudely domineered the trial with numerous obstructions - at hearings (when there were any) and during delays for various reasons.
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23. feb 2021.
Abuse of Journalists Rarely Punished by Serbian Courts: Report
Only one in ten criminal complaints about threats to or attacks on journalists results in a court verdict, and any sentences are mostly suspended, says a new report by a Serbian media freedom NGO.
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23. feb 2021.
Serbia: IPI welcomes guilty verdicts in Milan Jovanović case
The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the guilty verdicts handed down to three defendants accused of ordering and carrying out an arson attack which destroyed the home of Serbian investigative journalist Milan Jovanović in 2018.
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28. jan 2021.
IPI denounces intimidation of N1 TV journalist Jelena Zorić in Serbia
The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for an immediate end to the pressure and intimidation against N1 TV journalist Jelena Zorić by the defense lawyer in a major drug trial in Serbia.
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05. dec 2020.
Serbian Journalists’ NGO Accuses Ruling MPs of ‘Lynching’ Critics
The Slavko Curuvija Foundation, created in the memory of a famous murdered journalist, has condemned what it calls the orchestrated targeting of critical voices in the media, the arts and the NGO field – saying it fears this could end in violence.
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28. okt 2020.
Getting Away with Murder
CPJ’s 2020 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free. The case of Slavko Ćuruvija is a very important for CPJ, says CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator Gulnoza Said