Press statements of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE Media Freedom Representative calls off visit to Minsk
Publishing date: 26 August 2003
VIENNA, 26 August 2003- The OSCE's media watchdog, Freimut Duve, has been forced to cancel a visit to Belarus, planned for 1 and 2 September, because the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not given him and his senior adviser visas...
OSCE media watchdog expresses concern to Ivanov over Russian journalist jailed for libel
Publishing date: 27 August 2003
VIENNA, 27 August 2003- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has written to the Russian Foreign Minister raising the case of a prominent Russian journalist who was sentenced to one year in a labour camp for alleged libel...
OSCE Media Representative and Council of Europe call on Russia to reconsider legislation on libel
Publishing date: 29 August 2003
VIENNA, 29 August 2003- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, and Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, today made the following joint statement regarding the recent sentencing of Russian journalist...
OSCE Media Representative supports struggle against xenophobia, racism and hate speech on the Internet
Publishing date: 5 September 2003
VIENNA, 5 September 2003- On the occasion of the OSCE Conference on Racism, Xenophobia, and Discrimination, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, once more stressed the importance of fighting hate speech on all media...
OSCE media watchdog, Council of Europe voice concern on media in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 10 September 2003
VIENNA/STRASBOURG, 10 September 2003- Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today made the following joint statement regarding the media situation in...
OSCE media conference in Kyrgyzstan urges journalists to exercise corrective function
Publishing date: 18 September 2003
BISHKEK, 18 September 2003- The fifth OSCE Central Asia Media Conference held in Kyrgyzstan ended today with calls on the media to exercise their corrective function in the economy and politics...
OSCE media watchdog concerned over murder of Russian journalist
Publishing date: 13 October 2003
VIENNA, 13 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, was shocked by the 9 October murder of Russian newspaper editor Alexei Sidorov, who was fatally stabbed by two men who ambushed him in the car park...
OSCE's media representative alarmed over beating of journalists in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 17 October 2003
VIENNA, 17 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed alarm over the beating of journalists by police during post-election protests in Baku yesterday. "Once again I feel compelled to express my alarm...
OSCE media watchdog presents book on media freedom and the Internet
Publishing date: 23 October 2003
VIENNA, 23 October 2003- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has today presented the book "Spreading the Word on the Internet" at a meeting of the Organization's decision-making body, the Permanent Council. "With the...
OSCE and RSF urge decriminalization of libel
Publishing date: 25 November 2003
PARIS, 25 November 2003- Criminal libel and insult laws have become a major impediment to press freedom in many OSCE states, warned the Organization's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, and Reporters sans frontieres. "Such...