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SafeJournalists and MFRR: Albania – Press freedom organisations and journalist associations call for swift justice following deadly attack on Top Channel

Today, 27 March 2023, security guard Pal Kola, 60, was shot dead by unknown assailants on the premises of …

SafeJournalists: Firearm Attack against Top Channel in Albania, Guard Killed

The SafeJournalists Network is alarmed by the tragic incident that occurred at Top Channel, one of Albania’s leading national …

SafeJournalists: Journalists are Targets of Threats and Online Hate Speech in Bosnia and Herzegovina

AlJazeera Balkans journalist Dalija Hasanbegovic – Konakovic posted on her Twitter account a series of threatening messages and those containing hate …

SLAPP in Bulgaria, record claim against Mediapool

One million leva (about 500,000 Euros): this is the record compensation   requested in court by the Bulgarian insurance company …

SafeJournalists: Stop Violence against Journalists and Activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Several journalists and activists were attacked in Banja Luka on the evening of March 18, in front of the …

SafeJournalists: Stop the Intimidation of Journalists in Kosovo

Last night, someone attempted to arson the garage of the editor of the public broadcaster (Radio-television Kosovo), Alban Selimi …

Serbia: more efforts needed to face the past, increase safety of journalists and human rights defenders, and protect women from violence

Strasbourg, 17 March 2023 – “It is high time for Serbia to face the legacy of the past, to …

UK: IFJ backs BBC journalists strike to defend local news

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland, an IFJ affiliate, working across England …

MFRR and the SafeJournalists Network – Slavko Ćuruvija: Cycle of impunity for killing of journalists in Serbia must be broken

Following the start of the retrial last week at the Court of Appeal for the 1999 murder of Serbian …

South Tyrol, the information monopoly and a new case of SLAPP

Defence attorney for activists and environmentalists, expert in criminal law and international cooperation, former observer abroad in trials against …