Press statements of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE representative calls on Belarusian authorities to repeal accreditation requirements for journalists
Publishing date: 17 June 2014
VIENNA, 17 June 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed her concern about an increasing number of penalties imposed on journalists in recent months in Belarus for not being accredited by authorities...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes acquittal of Belarusian journalist
Publishing date: 24 September 2013
WARSAW, 24 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the decision by a court in Grodno in western Belarus to lift the restrictions imposed on the Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut...
OSCE media freedom representative presents analysis of Belarusian information law and recommends improvements
Publishing date: 10 September 2013
VIENNA, 10 September 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed proposed amendments to Belarusian information law and called on the authorities to improve the draft legislation...
Welcoming release of Belarusian journalist Irina Khalip, OSCE media freedom representative calls for improvement of media freedom situation
Publishing date: 19 July 2013
VIENNA, 19 July 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today’s decision by a court in Minsk to lift the restrictions imposed on Belarusian journalist, Irina Khalip...
OSCE representative welcomes enhanced media freedom dialogue with Belarus, urges improvements
Publishing date: 5 June 2013
MINSK, 5 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today at the end of a three-day official visit to Belarus the readiness of the authorities to intensify dialogue and co-operation with her office on much needed improvement of the media freedom situation...
OSCE trains journalists from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine in online media
Publishing date: 22 October 2012
CHISINAU, 23 October 2012 – The freedom, professionalism and sustainability of Internet media in Eastern Europe are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that opened today in Chisinau...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned by arrest of social media activists in Belarus
Publishing date: 3 September 2012
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...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for ‘teddy bear’ charges against Belarusian journalist to be dropped
Publishing date: 8 August 2012
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 condemns arrest and new charges against Andrzej Poczobut, calls for immediate release
Publishing date: 22 June 2012
VIENNA, 22 June 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, condemned today the arrest of Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut and called the new charges against him for libel of the President politically motivated...
Belarus president should halt harsh policy towards media, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 10 May 2012