April 10, 2017

10/04/2017: GREECE – SEEMO EXPRESSES CONCERNS ABOUT A JOURNALIST IN GREECE

Vienna, 10/04/2017

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is concerned about news from Greece from this morning.

As SEEMO was informed, a Greek judge ordered this morning on Monday 10 April, that the award-winning Greek journalist and publisher Kostas Vaxevanis (@KostasVaxevanis) should be arrested, after Vaxevanis published an article in his weekly newspaper «Documento».

SEEMO will monitor the case.

SEEMO is a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South, East and Central Europe and its press freedom work is supported by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) project, as part of a grant by the European Commission.