News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes release of journalist Aziz Orudjev in Azerbaijan
Publishing date: 6 April 2018
VIENNA, 6 April 2018 –OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today welcomed the release of the head of the Internet TV channel Kanal 13 in Azerbaijan...
Blocking of news website and detention of journalists in Kazakhstan of grave concern, says OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
Publishing date: 5 April 2018
VIENNA, 5 April 2018 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today criticized the temporary detention of journalists and editors from Ratel.kz and Forbes Kazakhstan, and the blocking of the Ratel.kz webpage in Kazakhstan...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns bomb attack in Montenegro, commends swift police action
Publishing date: 3 April 2018
VIENNA, 3 April 2018 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today condemned the recent bomb attack outside a journalist’s house in Montenegro...
OSCE media freedom representative Désir calls for release of Özgürlükçü Demokrasi staff, following police raid on newspaper’s offices in Turkey
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
VIENNA, 29 March 2018 – The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and appointing a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of this media outlet and another setback to media pluralism in Turkey, said Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today following yesterday’s police raid on the newspaper’s office...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo deeply concerned with violence against media during police intervention
Publishing date: 27 March 2018
VIENNA/PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 27 March 2018- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, and the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jan Braathu, expressed deep concern today for the safety of journalists reporting on the police intervention in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North on 26 March.
OSCE media freedom representative calls on Tajikistani authorities to remove names of journalists from list of people with connections to terrorists
Publishing date: 27 March 2018
VIENNA, 28 March 2018 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today wrote to Foreign Minister of Tajikistan Sirodjidin Aslov, calling for the removal of 14 journalists’ names from a “list of people wanted for serious crimes, including connections with terrorists”.
OSCE media freedom representative calls on Slovakia to decriminalize defamation and respect journalists’ rights
Publishing date: 23 March 2018
VIENNA, 23 March – Today OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir wrote to the Slovak authorities to express concern about a recently passed verdict on the case of journalist Lukáš Milan...