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SEEMO Calendar:		Picture of the month:
17-18 May - SEEMO Workshop Climate Change, Belgrade, Serbia 21. May - Presentation of the SEEMO Photo Human Rights Award 24-27 May - I South East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days, Becici, Montenegro 11-16 september - Celebration of 10 years of SEEMO in Vienna 11-16 september - Conference Dialogue South East Europe - Hate Speech and Stereotypes, Vienna 16 september - SEEMO Press Freedom Meeting / Board Meeting September - Presentation of the SEEMO CEI Investigative Journalism Award 2010 - Poland 15 October - Presentation of the Dr. Erhard Busek SEEMO Award for Better Understanding 2010 November - Publishing of the 2010 edition of SEEMO South East and Central Europe Media Handbook 11-12 November - IV South East Europe Media Forum - Budapest Topic: Access to Information, in cooperation with WAZ, KAS, Access Info, Netzwerk Ost.and Raiffeisen Bankengruppe 13. November - SECEPRO Meeting Presentation of SEEMO Media Handbook in Brussels Presentation of each number of De Scripto in the region – partner University 10 December - Presentation of the SEEMO Human Rights Award 2010
		Lidia Pavlova investigative jorunalist, Bulgaria, living under constant threat since she began reporting the "Galevi" case
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			Лидия Павлова първа от Дупница тръгна срещу Галеви
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Call for 2010 'Dr. Erhard Busek SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe' Vienna, 16 March 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is pleased to announce the 2010 Dr. Erhard Busek - SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. Sponsored by Dr. Erhard Busek - Jean Monet Professor ad personam, President of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), Former Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and President of the European Forum Alpbach - the EUR 3,000 award will be presented to a journalist, editor, media executive, media expert, writer or journalism trainer in South Eastern Europe, who has promoted better understanding amongst peoples in the region and worked towards ending minority-related problems, ethnic division, racism, xenophobia, or who has helped in any other form to foster understanding in South East Europe... read more to the top   SEEMO PRESS RELEASE: Car of EuroBlic/Blic Journalist Set on Fire in Doboj, Bosnia Herzegovina Vienna, 15 March 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the attack on journalist Rade Tesic from Euroblic, the Bosnian - Herzegovinian edition of the Blic daily in Belgrade, Serbia... read more to the top   SEEMO Photo Human Rights Award - BETA Photograph of the Year Competition. Vienna, 12 March 2010   For the third time, SEEMO will present the annual SEEMO Human Rights Photo Award. The competition for the SEEMO award is part of the BETA Photograph of the Year Competition. This is the 7th consecutive competition BETA is organising. All professional photo reporters from the countries of South East Europe are invited to participate. The competition will remain open until 17 April 2010... read more to the top   In Serbia, Hungarian daily Magyar Szo Faces Editorial Policy Censorship Vienna, 11 March 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is concerned about political pressure on editors and journalists of Magyar Szo, the only daily in Hungarian language in Vojvodina, Serbia... read more to the top   French Foreign Minister Kouchner Refers to Voice of America Reporter in Kosovo as 'Sick' and 'Insane' Vienna, 10 March 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the manner in which French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner behaved towards Budimir Nicic, a Voice of America reporter, in the Kosovo town of Gracanica... read more to the top   SEEMO press release: In ‘Warning’, Turkish Prime Minister Says Critical Columnists to Blame for Falling Stock Market – supported by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) Vienna, 4 March 2010   Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed critical columnists for driving down Turkey’s stock exchange and has suggested that “those who are giving the pencils to them should say: ‘Sorry, there is no place in our shop’,” according to a column in the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News by IPI Board Member and Hurriyet columnist Ferai Tınc. The original Hurriyet column was translated into English by Hurriyet Daily News staff... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Koha Ditore Journalist Allegedly Threatened over Critical Reporting Vienna, 25 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns threats against Vehbi Kajtazi, a journalist for the daily newspaper Koha Ditore, in Pristina, by a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, or UCK... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Turkish prosecutors request 525 year sentence for Kurdish editor Vienna, 23 February 2010   Vedat Kursun, former editor of Kurdish daily, Azadiya Welat, has been charged with 105 counts of "helping and abetting the PKK organization by spreading propaganda" and "glorifying crimes and criminals in articles published in numerous issues of the newspaper. On 12 February 2010, his successor as editor, Ozan Kilinc, was convicted and sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for similar charges... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Bulgarian BGNES News Agency Journalist Allegedly Threatened while Reporting on Case Vienna, 18 February 2010   The South East European Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the alleged threat made by a police spokesman against Bulgarian BGNES news agency journalist Ivan Yanev. On 8 February 2010 Yanev was investigating the murder of a policeman in the village of Enina in Bulgaria when he was threatened by a police spokesman from the nearby city of Stara Zagora who stated that Yanev was a "dead man." ... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Turkey Sentences Kurdish Newspaper Editor to 21 Years in Prison Vienna, 15 February 2010   A Turkish court on 10 December sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for publishing what the court called Kurdish propaganda, only two weeks after the European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Bulgarian journalist hit with hammer against head Vienna, 11 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the recent physical attack on 23-year-old journalist Dimitar Varbanov, from bTV program Master of Broadcastingin Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Police Assault Journalist in Bosnia Herzegovina Vienna, 10 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns recent police pressure on Nezavisna Televizija IC (Independent Television IC) journalist Osman Drina in Zenica, Bosnia Herzegovina... read more to the top   SEEMO Condemn Molotov Cocktail Attack on TV SKAT in Bulgaria Vienna, 5 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the attack on TV SKAT in Bulgaria.  On 3 February 2010, the premises of the Varna office of Bulgarian TV SKAT were attacked with a Molotov cocktail, following a similar attack on the head office of TV SKAT in Burgas just one day previously, on 2 February 2010. The perpetrators remain unknown so far... read more to the top   SEEMO: Serbian Minister for Infrastructure Assaults Kurir journalist Vienna, 3 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the pressure applied to Kurirjournalist Milan Ladjevic by Serbian Minister for Infrastructure Milutin Mrkonjic.  On 2 February 2010, in the hall of the Serbian Parliament, Minister Mrkonjic, according to several sources, assaulted Kurir journalist Ladjevic. Serbian media reported that the Minister slapped the journalist's face as he talked to fellow journalists... read more to the top   SEEMO: Almost Four Decades On, IPI Calls for Justice for Slain Turkish Editor Abdi Ipekci Vienna, 2 February 2010   Almost four decades after Abdi Ipekci, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Milliyet, was shot dead in his car on 1 February 1971 by Mehmet Ali Agca, a right-wing militant who later escaped from jail and attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981, IPI is still calling for justice... read more to the top   SEEMO Press Release: Serbian Orthodox Priest Threatens Journalist Vienna, 2 February 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the threat made by the Serbian Orthodox priest Bogdan Simanic against the Serbian journalist Aleksandra Delic, a correspondent for the Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti... read more to the top   SEEMO: European Court of Human Rights Orders Turkey to Pay Compensation to Journalists Vienna, 29 January 2010   The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Turkey to pay a total of over 40,000 Euros to 20 Turkish journalists as compensation for having violated their rights.  In two separate cases, the Court ruled on 26 January that Turkey had violated freedom of speech laws when it suspended five newspapers and sentenced a magazine editor to prison over an article criticizing prison brutality... read more to the top   SEEMO concerned about the safety of the Bulgarian journalist Lidia Pavlova Vienna, 29 January 2010   To:   Boyko Borissov Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Tsvetan Tsvetanov Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior       Your Excellencies, The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is very concerned about the safety of the Bulgarian journalist Lidia Pavlova. We would herewith like to call your attention to this case... read more to the top   SEEMO Strongly Condemns Police Raid on Premises of BN Television in Bijeljina, Bosnia - Herzegovina Vienna, 23 January 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the police raid on BN Television in Bijeljina, Bosnia - Herzegovina. The Bosnia-Herzegovina journalists association, BH Novinari, and the Sarajevo-based Linija za pomoc novinara (Free Media Help Line) have also expressed concern about the matter... read more to the top   SEEMO: Political Pressure on Serbian Weekly Vranjske Vienna, 22 January 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute, is alarmed at the strong political pressure being exercised on the Serbian weekly Vranjske... read more to the top   SEEMO Condemns Series of Attacks against Journalists in Greece Vienna, 21 January 2010   The South-East European Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns a wave of violent attacks against journalists in Greece. The attacks were reported to the SEEMO office. Attacks on sports reporters have been common in recent years. In the most recent incident, sports reporters covering the AEK-Olympiakos Championship football match in Athens, on 6 January 2010, were violently beaten... read more to the top   SEEMO: Cyprus Media Figure Shot Dead Vienna, 14 January 2010   The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a regional organisation of editors, media executives, owners of media and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe, and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the murder of Andis Hadjicostis, CEO of the family-controlled Dias media group and Sigma TV in Nicosia, Cyprus... read more to the top   SEEMO: Political pressure on 'Radiotelevizija Bosne i Hercegovine' (BHRT) Vienna, 14 January 2010   The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is worried by political interference at "Radiotelevizija Bosne i Hercegovine (BHRT) - Javni radio - televizijski servis Bosne i Hercegovine, the national public broadcaster in Bosnia - Herzegovina. It is cause for alarm that political and financial pressure is being applied to public service journalists, editors and managers. These pressures are preventing journalists and media executives from carrying out their work professional and independently... read more to the top

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SEEMO PRESS RELEASE: Car of EuroBlic/Blic Journalist Set on Fire in Doboj, Bosnia Herzegovina In Serbia, Hungarian daily Magyar Szo Faces Editorial Policy Censorship French Foreign Minister Kouchner Refers to Voice of America Reporter in Kosovo as 'Sick' and 'Insane' SEEMO press release: In ‘Warning’, Turkish Prime Minister Says Critical Columnists to Blame for Falling Stock Market – supported by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) SEEMO Press Release: Koha Ditore Journalist Allegedly Threatened over Critical Reporting

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SEEMF Tirana 4-6 November 2009

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