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OSCE media watchdog, Finnish OSCE Chairmanship host forum on challenges to media freedom

Publishing date: 29 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 29 February 2008- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklós Haraszti, and Finnish Secretary of State Pertti Torstila, called on participating States to comply with their OSCE media commitments at a roundtable discussion today...

OSCE condemns attacks on journalists

Publishing date: 25 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 25 February 2008- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, criticized today violent attacks aimed at journalists following last week's "Kosovo is Serbia" rally in Belgrade...

Serbian foreign minister to speak on Kosovo at OSCE Permanent Council

Publishing date: 18 February 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
VIENNA, 18 February 2008- The situation around Kosovo will be the focus of an address by Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic to the OSCE Permanent Council tomorrow...

OSCE media freedom representative protests jailing of editor in Belarus for reprinting cartoons

Publishing date: 18 January 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 18 January 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today condemned the three-year high-security prison sentence handed down to Alexander Zdvizhkov, ex-deputy editor of the Zhoda newspaper...

International observers for Georgian presidential election to hold news conference in Tbilisi on Sunday

Publishing date: 4 January 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TBILISI, 4 January 2008- The International Election Observation Mission deployed to monitor the 5 January presidential election in Georgia will announce its preliminary findings and conclusions at a news conference on Sunday...

OSCE welcomes pardoning of journalists in Azerbaijan but urges legal reform

Publishing date: 2 January 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
BAKU, 2 January 2008- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OSCE Office in Baku today welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's pardon of five imprisoned journalists...

Strictly controlled Uzbek elections did not offer a genuine choice, ODIHR observers conclude

Publishing date: 24 December 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TASHKENT, 24 December 2007- Yesterday's presidential election in Uzbekistan was held in a strictly controlled political environment, leaving no room for real opposition, and the election generally failed to meet many OSCE commitments for democratic...