Press statements of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...
OSCE Mission to monitor investigation into 1999 bombing of Serb state media station
Publishing date: 10 August 2001
BELGRADE, 10 August 2001 (OSCE)-- Representatives of the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia met with relatives of two victims of the 1999 Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS) bombing in Aberdareva Street...
Freimut Duve concerned over attack on journalists in Genoa
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
VIENNA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 27 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, intervened with the Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero regarding actions by the Italian police against journalists...
Series of regional seminars on freedom of the media started in Ukraine
Publishing date: 18 July 2001
KYIV, 18 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine in co-operation with the Supreme Court of Ukraine (Training Center), the non-governmental organization Khartia-4, and IREX pro Media organized a seminar on...
Freimut Duve: Russia allows a Tajik journalist to go back to his family
Publishing date: 12 July 2001
VIENNA, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 12 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on the recent case of Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev, detained at a Moscow airport...
OSCE Media Representative concerned about detention of Tajik journalist in Russia
Publishing date: 9 July 2001
VIENNA, 9 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed his concern about the detention of the Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev at a Moscow airport a day earlier...
Authors from Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo to meet in Tuzla, 4 July
Publishing date: 2 July 2001
VIENNA, 2 July 2001 (OSCE)-- At the invitation of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, the three founders of the initiative Gruppe 99 will meet in Tuzla on 4 July to lecture and take part in discussions...
Continued concern about harassment of media in Belarus
Publishing date: 22 June 2001
VIENNA, 22 June 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has noted the following cases of media harassment in Belarus:
Freedom of media: Italy's solution will be a precedent
Publishing date: 22 June 2001
VIENNA, 22 June 2001 (OSCE)-- On 21 June, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, spoke at the OSCE Permanent Council addressing his concerns regarding the central task of his mandate: the concentration of control of media
Concern over arrest of journalist in Belarus
Publishing date: 19 June 2001
VIENNA, 19 June 2001 (OSCE)-- Valeriy Shukin, a Belarus journalist and 13th Supreme Soviet Deputy, was incarcerated on 12 June 2001 for three months on charges of \"hooliganism.\" He was sentenced on 15 March...