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Electricity cut to Media House in Kosovo
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 28 July 2000-- Following several warnings from the Electricity Company of Kosovo (KEK), the lights went out this afternoon at the Pristina-based "Media House"...
Proposed law on presidential succession to be reviewed in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Democratization
SARAJEVO, 28 July 2000-- The Office of the High Representative and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina are amazed at the BiH House of Representatives' rush to adopt without public debate...
Kosovo newspaper responds to warning from Media Commissioner
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 28 July 2000-- The Albanian-language daily newspaper "Rilindja" has responded to the 21 July warning letter issued by the Temporary Media Commissioner Douglas Davidson...
Regional Stability Pact Co-ordinator on Trafficking visits Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 28 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
SARAJEVO, 28 July 2000- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted a visit of Dr Helga Konrad, the Regional Coordinator of the Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings.
Freimut Duve accused by Belgrade government of being a "German agent"
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 27 July 2000-- Freimut Duve, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, is dismayed by the sentencing of a Serbian journalist, Miroslav Filipovic, to seven years in prison on 26 July 2000 by the Nis military court.
Kosovo Temporary Media Commissioner orders "Dita" newspaper to suspend operations
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 27 July 2000-- The Temporary Media Commissioner (TMC) has ordered the the Albanian-language newspaper \"Dita\" to suspend operations immediately following its failure to pay a fine imposed for violating the Print Regulation...
Round table discussion on pre-trial criminal procedures in Kosovo
Publishing date: 27 July 2000
PRISTINA, 27 July 2000-- The relationship between the courts and the police with regard to pre-trial criminal procedures is the focus of a two-day roundtable discussion...