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OSCE Centre trains journalists in Uzbekistan's Karakalpak Autonomous Republic
Publishing date: 18 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Media freedom and development
TASHKENT, 18 July 2004- The second of a series of training courses for local journalists from the Karakalpak Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan ended today. The event was organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent...
OSCE Mission concerned over prison sentence for libel, calls for reform of Croatian libel legislation
Publishing date: 13 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Croatia (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
ZAGREB, 13 July 2004- The OSCE Mission to Croatia expressed concern that a journalist was yesterday sentenced to prison for libel. The Split Municipal Court sentenced journalist Ljubica Letinic to a two-month suspended prison term. The verdict is now...
OSCE Media Representative appalled by murder of Russian Forbes magazine editor
Publishing date: 12 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 12 July 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, said on Monday he was appalled at the murder of magazine editor Paul Khlebnikov in Moscow. "I am horrified at this brutal killing and call on the Russian...
OSCE Mission Head inaugurates Kosovo's new multi-ethnic TV station
Publishing date: 12 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 12 July 2004- Pascal Fieschi, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, today opened the first multi-ethnic private TV station in Kosovo, in the municipality of Strpce/Shterpce. TV Herc, brings together Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in a...
OSCE Media Representative asks Hungary and Poland to remove prison sentences from libel law
Publishing date: 9 July 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
VIENNA, 9 July 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has raised with the Justice Ministers in both Hungary and Poland several recent cases of journalists being sentenced to prison for libel...
OSCE Media Representative concerned about deportation of journalist from Belarus
Publishing date: 23 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 23 June 2004- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has expressed his serious concern about the decision on 21 June by the Belarusian security services, the KGB, to deport Mihail Padalyak, a journalist from the...
Tajik journalists receive OSCE training on reporting human trafficking
Publishing date: 2 June 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 2 June 2004- As part of its anti-trafficking programme, the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe has launched a five-day training programme on human trafficking reporting for 23 journalists from different regions of Tajikistan. The training is intended...