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Poland should abolish criminal defamation, says OSCE media freedom representative following conviction of editor
VIENNA, 17 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today criticised a criminal conviction of Robert Frycz, the editor of Antykomor.pl website, for insulting the President of Poland, and called for decriminalization of defamation in the country...
OSCE media freedom representative to meet Serbian government, media NGOs in Belgrade on 18-19 September
VIENNA, 14 September 2012 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, will pay her first official visit to Belgrade on 18 and 19 September to meet top government officials, media policymakers, NGO representatives and journalists...
Lawsuit against Hungarian journalist can have chilling effect on Internet freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
VIENNA, 12 September 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today warned that the lawsuit initiated by the official Hungarian News Agency against journalist György Balavany can constrain media pluralism on the Internet...
OSCE in Moldova holds summer school for journalists on political party financing
VADUL LUI VODA, Moldova, 6 September 2012 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova, in co-operation with the Chisinau-based NGO IDIS Viitorul opened today a two-day summer school for journalists on public financing of political parties and the role of media in raising transparency in political funding, in Vadul Lui Voda. The summer school brings together journalists from the right and left banks of the Dniestr/Nistru River, and Moldova’s autonomous territory of Gagauzia... ()
OSCE media freedom representative concerned by arrest of social media activists in Belarus
VIENNA, 4 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today that she was deeply concerned by the detentions and arrests of administrators of political social media groups in Belarus, which she described as a crackdown on online dissent... ()
Freedom of expression at stake, warns OSCE media freedom representative following Pussy Riot verdict
VIENNA, 17 August 2012 – Responding to the verdict against the Russian punk band Pussy Riot today, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović warned of a dangerous tendency towards curbing freedom of expression... ()
OSCE media freedom representative calls for ‘teddy bear’ charges against Belarusian journalist to be dropped
VIENNA, 8 August 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today asked Belarusian authorities to drop charges against Anton Suryapin, who faces up to seven years in prison for uploading photos of teddy bears that had been released by plane into Belarus... ()
OSCE media freedom representative calls for pardon of journalist imprisoned in Serbia
VIENNA, 2 August 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today called upon Serbia’s president, Tomislav Nikolić, to pardon journalist Laszlo Szasz, following his imprisonment for insult... ()