News and press releases

VADUL LUI VODA, Moldova, 6 September 2012 – The OSCE Mission to Moldova, in co-operation with the Chisinau-based NGO IDIS Viitorul opened today a two-day summer school for journalists on public financing of political parties and the role of media in raising transparency in political funding, in Vadul Lui Voda. The summer school brings together journalists from the right and left banks of the Dniestr/Nistru River, and Moldova’s autonomous territory of Gagauzia...

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...

Students of the Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism of the OSCE Academy and the Deutsche Welle Akademie, a summer school for young journalists, met Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development of Germany Dirk Niebel in Bishkek on 26 August 2012...

VIENNA, 17 August 2012 – Responding to the verdict against the Russian punk band Pussy Riot today, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović warned of a dangerous tendency towards curbing freedom of expression...

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...

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, presented on 3 August 2012 to the Moldovan government a legal analysis of the proposed plan to switch from analogue to digital broadcasting in Moldova...

VIENNA, 2 August 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today called upon Serbia’s president, Tomislav Nikolić, to pardon journalist Laszlo Szasz, following his imprisonment for insult...