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Montenegro: With a shot in the leg Olivera Lakic was sent a message to stop reporting

Јournalist of Daily “Vijesti”  from Podgorica, Olivera Lakić, was wounded in the leg on front of the building where she lives. Lakić said that a...

Association of Journalists of Macedonia on the new EC Progress Report

SKOPJE, 30.04.2018 – Last week the President of the Association of Journalists of Macedonia, Naser Selmani, on the session of the National Council for...

Macedonia: State Department reports on subordinate media, attacks on journalists, public distrust

The Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2017 for Macedonia, prepared by the US State Department, itemizes numerous instances of threats and attacks to journalists,...

EC Progress Report: Zero tolerance on threats against media in Kosovo

The progress report for Kosovo launched by European Commission on 18 April 2018 repeated the 2016 recommendations and one of them requires swift investigation against...

Montenegro: “There is no point in police protection for journalists”

After Malta and Slovakia, also in Montenegro the media finds itself suppressed with utmost brutality: last Sunday a car bomb exploded outside the home of prominent Montenegrin journalist...

BiH: Journalists’ protection from powerful people in local communities

Freedom of expression in BiH is still not on a satisfactory level and journalists are often exposed to various kinds of pressure, even including...

Bulgaria 2017: State of Journalism and Freedom of Speech: Report

Four cases of physical attacks, three of serious verbal attacks and three "unjustified dismissals" of journalists were recorded by the Association of European Journalists...

Attacks and hate speech on social networks in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Numerous journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still facing attacks and harassment on the Internet and particularly on social networks. These are mainly directed...

Serbia: the safety of journalists outside the state’s sphere of competence

Since the beginning of this year, fifteen journalists have suffered threats and attacks. Representatives of the authorities say that they condemn such attacks, but...

Bulgaria: time to tackle the nightmare next door

Emotions ran high at ECPMF’s Expert Talk on Bulgaria, held in Brussels on 25 January. There was a moving testimony from ECPMF’s Journalist-in-Residence (JiR)...
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