Press statements of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE Media Freedom Representative and OSCE Head of Mission to Serbia welcome adoption of Serbian Media Strategy
Publishing date: 31 January 2020
VIENNA / BELGRADE, 31 January 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Andrea Orizio, welcomed yesterday’s adoption of the new Strategy for the Development of the Public Information System in Serbia...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative strongly condemns attack on journalist Andrea Topić in Croatia
Publishing date: 25 January 2020
VIENNA, 25 January 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today strongly denounced the verbal attacks and intimidation against a journalist of Slobodna Dalmacija, Andrea Topić, in Croatia...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative concerned by several provisions of Ukraine’s new draft law on disinformation
Publishing date: 23 January 2020
VIENNA, 23 January 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed today his concerns about several provisions in Ukraine’s new draft law on disinformation...
Attack against journalist in Greece unacceptable, OSCE Media Freedom Representative urges full investigation
Publishing date: 20 January 2020
VIENNA, 20 January 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, condemned today the violent attack against journalist Thomas Jacobi in Athens, Greece...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes the end of ban on Wikipedia in Turkey, a victory for access to information
Publishing date: 16 January 2020
VIENNA, 16 January 2020- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed yesterday’s decision by a court in Turkey to lift the ban on Wikipedia.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative expresses readiness to continue working with Albanian authorities to improve media legislation
Publishing date: 13 January 2020
VIENNA, 13 January 2020 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, received today from the President of Republic of Albania Ilir Meta’s Office explanatory documents on the reasons for the return to Parliament of the laws on Audiovisual Media and the Law on Electronic communication in the Republic of Albania...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes new initiative aiming to strengthen media self-regulation in North Macedonia
Publishing date: 18 December 2019
VIENNA, 18 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his support for the registry on self-regulation of online media in North Macedonia, which was announced today by the Council of Media Ethics together with the Association of Journalists of Macedonia and the Economic Chamber...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative expresses hope that all who perpetrated and ordered the murder of Pavlo Sheremet in Ukraine are brought to justice
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his hope that the perpetrators of, and masterminds behind, the murder of the journalist Pavlo Sheremet will soon be identified and brought to justice, after the Ukrainian authorities declared five persons to be suspects...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media highly concerned by disproportionate defamation claims against three media outlets in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
VIENNA, 13 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, raised his concerns today at the disproportionate damages of more than 320,000 US dollars demanded in a defamation suit against the Kyrgyzstan media organizations Azattyk (the Kyrgyz-language service of the international broadcaster RFE/RL), Kloop.kg and 24.kg...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative Désir recommends further improvements to laws on online media in Albania, in latest review sent to authorities
Publishing date: 9 December 2019
VIENNA, 9 December 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, sent a legal review to the Government of Albania on the latest amendments to the Law on Audiovisual Media in Albania and the Law on Electronic Communications...