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European Media Freedom Act: 80 organisations urge the European Parliament to protect journalists from surveillance and spyware
Together with 79 journalists and press freedom, civil society, trade unions, digital rights, publishers and broadcasters organisations, the European …
Russia: armed thugs beat up journalist and lawyer
Prominent investigative journalist Yelena Milashina has been badly beaten and had fingers broken by masked men as she travelled …
Indicted drug farm owner on pro-regime TV
The main defendant in a case alleged to involve high-ranking public officials appeared on a pro-regime TV station, denying …
Turkey: EFJ demands release of journalist Merdan Yanardağ
Journalist Merdan Yanardağ, editor-in-chief of Turkish broadcaster TELE1, was arrested on 27 June following a judicial investigation into his …
Northern Cyprus: EFJ condemns firing of Ali Kişmir, censorship and political pressure
The President of the Turkish Cypriot Press Workers’ Union (Basın-Sen), journalist Ali Kişmir, was forced to resign from the …
Italy: Support for Roberto Saviano, defendant in a SLAPP case filed by Giorgia Meloni
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins the undersigned international media freedom and journalists’ organisations and stands in solidarity …
How the state uses Telekom Srbija to found media
In cooperation with the news channel Euronews from France, Serbia’s Telekom launched Euronews Serbia in 2021. Even though the …
How Serbia’s Telekom financially supports media outlets in Serbia
Serbia’s Telekom is financially supporting the Minacord media company, i.e. television K1, whose owners are singer Zeljko Joksimovic and …
Germany: Journalists’ organisations criticise Axel Springer’s plans to cut 200 jobs
Germany’s top-selling tabloid Bild announced that it will cut about 200 jobs and close about one-third of its regional …
BIRODI: Prosecutor named to investigate report on REM
The Belgrade-based Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI) said on Friday that an organized crime prosecutor had been named to …