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Landmark OSCE survey examines barriers to journalists' investigative rights

Publishing date: 2 May 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Safety of journalists
BRUSSELS, 2 May 2007- Societies have more access to information than ever before, but weak laws and prosecution against the media diminish journalists' investigative abilities, said the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti...

OSCE Representative asks Azerbaijani President to halt persecution of journalists, greets renewed license for embattled broadcaster

Publishing date: 27 April 2007
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, Safety of journalists
BAKU, 27 April 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, asked President Ilham Aliyev today to issue a moratorium on criminal prosecution of journalists and follow up with a decriminalization reform...

OSCE media freedom representative condemns sentencing of journalist, says Azerbaijan media under serious threat

Publishing date: 23 April 2007
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, Media pluralism, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 23 April 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, voiced dismay today over the prison sentence of Eynulla Fatullayev, the editor of the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the daily...

OSCE holds seminar on libel and defamation for Moldovan judges

Publishing date: 23 April 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Media freedom and development
CHISINAU, 23 April 2007- Twenty Moldovan judges are taking part in an OSCE-organized seminar on libel and defamation cases that began in Chisinau today...

OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes plans for press freedom improvements in Kazakhstan

Publishing date: 21 April 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws, Rule of law
ALMATY, 21 April 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today welcomed Kazakhstan's Parliament's recent decision to add to its agenda a new draft media law written by four journalists' organizations...

OSCE condemns bomb attack on Serbian journalist

Publishing date: 16 April 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Countering terrorism, Media freedom and development
BELGRADE, 16 April 2007- The Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, today condemned this weekend's bomb attack on the Serbian journalist Dejan Anastasijevic, and called for quick action in bringing the perpetrator(s) to justice.

Croatian draft secrecy law needlessly restrictive, says OSCE media freedom representative

Publishing date: 13 April 2007
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media laws
VIENNA, 13 April 2007- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said today that the government-proposed draft law on Data Secrecy in Croatia unnecessarily restricts access to information...