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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
The war against independent journalism in Serbia continues
Publishing date: 11 November 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 11 November 1999-- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the Contact Group on 10 November drawing its attention to the continuing...
Journalist Ahmet Taner Kislali killed in Turkey
Publishing date: 22 October 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 22 October 1999-- With great sadness Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, learned of the murder of Ahmet Taner Kislali, a prominent Turkish journalist and...
OSCE welcomes the release of Russian journalist
Publishing date: 20 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 20 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomes the release of Grigory Pasko, a Russian journalist who was arrested in November 1997 and charged with spying.
Editor of opposition newspaper in Belarus threatened
Publishing date: 12 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 12 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is seriously concerned with reports that a senior editor for the Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta, a leading opposition newspaper, had...
OSCE welcomes release of Azerbaijani journalist
Publishing date: 10 July 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 12 July 1999-- Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, welcomes reports that Azerbaijan's sole incarcerated journalist, Fuad Qahramanli, has been granted amnesty...
OSCE Ministerial Troika holds meeting in Oslo
Publishing date: 24 June 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, Troika, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
OSLO, 24 June 1999-- The OSCE Ministerial Troika, Foreign Ministers Knut Vollebæk of Norway, Bronislaw Geremek of Poland and Ambassador Jutta Stefan-Bastl representing the...
Journalists in Kosovo need visible 'sign of protection'
Publishing date: 14 June 1999
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 14 June 1999- The following statement was released today by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve. "Today with great sadness I learned of the deaths of three journalists in Kosovo..."