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Independent journalism in Serbia faces one of its deepest crises in years.   Media workers regularly face orchestrated smear campaigns, verbal harassment, physical attacks, damage to property, and major pressure...

The instrumental use of EU data protection threatens press freedom in Greece. The case of journalist Stavroula Poulimeni and the independent media outlet Alterthess, sentenced in the first instance to...

This article, republished by IPI, was written by Serbian journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Veran Matić, chair of Serbia’s Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists  ...

24 years after the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, the perpetrators are still unpunished in Serbia. Although there is finally progress and hopefully the case will be finally solved, impunity...

Last year, Informer had the most manipulative news – disinformation, biased or claims for which there was no evidence – as many as 363. It is followed by Srpski telegraf...

We partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform, a Europe-wide system of public alerts to flag and remedy serious threats to media freedom, call on the...

The sum that pro-regime tabloid owner Dragan J. Vucicevic was ordered by the court to pay as damages for insults against a journalists has been paid to the Second Basic...

Pro-regime tabloid editor Dragan J. Vucicevic reported to the District Jail in Belgrade on Monday to serve a six month sentence for refusing to pay damages awarded by a court...

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said that he begged the editor of the tabloid “Informer”, Dragan Vucicevic, not to go to prison and that he told him that he would pay...

Aleksandar Sapic, the mayor of the Serbian capital of Belgrade, has filed two separate defamation lawsuits against BIRN Serbia, its editor and journalists, claiming that their reporting damaged his reputation...

On March 23, the People’s Assembly of the Republika Srpska approved the bill on the amendments to the Criminal Code. 49 (out of 83) MPs voted in favour of the...

One million leva (about 500,000 Euros): this is the record compensation requested in court by the Bulgarian insurance company “Lev Ins” against the online publication “Mediapool”. According to “Lev Ins”,...