News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative calls on Azerbaijani authorities to stop imprisonment of journalists
Publishing date: 27 September 2013
VIENNA, 27 September 2013 –OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop prosecution of journalists following the handing down of a prison sentence to newspaper editor Hilal Mamedov...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned about newspaper suspensions in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 September 2013
VIENNA, 27 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about recent suspensions of newspapers in Kazakhstan...
OSCE Office trains Azerbaijani journalists on investigative reporting skills
Publishing date: 27 September 2013
As part of its investigative reporting skills training project for Azerbaijani journalists, the OSCE Office in Baku organized the third training course for journalists focusing on human trafficking and forced labour cases from 26 to 27 September 2013, in Guba city, north of Azerbaijan...
OSCE media freedom representative calls for release of arrested photojournalist in Russia
Publishing date: 26 September 2013
VIENNA, 26 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about the arrest of photojournalist Denis Sinyakov in Russia and called for his release...
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 concerned about disappearance of journalist in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 23 September 2013
WARSAW, 23 September 2013 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern about the disappearance of independent journalist Sergej Naumov in Uzbekistan.
OSCE Centre concludes two-year programme on eco-journalism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 September 2013
A two-year training programme on environmental journalism, supported by the Centre in Astana, concluded in Almaty on 20 September 2013. Over the two years, more than 140 journalists from different regions of Kazakhstan participated in training seminars held in Almaty, Atyrau, Karaganda, Pavlodar and Shymkent...