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But the police intervened by arresting several rightists who tried to prevent the activists from removing the graffiti. The activists and Belgraders eventually removed the graffiti. The NGOs...
The online courses on “Freedom of Expression” and “Protection and Safety of Journalists” have been developed by the joint European Union and Council of Europe’s action on “Freedom of Expression...
The lawsuit specified that on December 2, 2020, the authors said Sapic’s organisation ‘Be Humane” phone number was registered to him and that he used the organisation for personal political...
The changes were officially proposed to „additionally protect journalists,“ but Lawyer Bozo Prelevic told N1 it was „a perfidious manoeuvre lacking proper public debate. Instead of being protected, the journalists...
The network SafeJournalists, whose members are the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia, Association of BH Journalists, Croatian Journalists Association, Association of Journalists of Kosovo, Association of Journalists of Macedonia and...
Both were happy with parts of the report saying Serbia made limited progress in some areas but did not mention all those warnings about the lack of achievements in other...
The EC’s annual report covering the period from October 2020 to October 2021 also said that the Council of Europe (CoE) Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) had found its...
He added that the new Body is a Government’s working body and could transfer to it only own powers. „The main problem with the decision is that the Provisional...
However, the reporting of the privately-owned TV channels, which become the platforms for promoting the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, is not questioned „because of the ownership, they have the right...
Participants were representatives of regional partner organizations, members of the Safe Journalists network: the Association of Journalists of Macedonia, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo, the “BH Journalists” Association, the...
Speaking at a hybrid conference in the Brussels Press Club, organised by the Balkan Free Media Initiative, Peter Horrocks, who is now a board member of Ofcom, said with self-irony:...
Antoinette Nikolova is the founder and Director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative established in April 2021. Methodical attacks on independent media are becoming endemic across Eastern Europe, and...