Vienna, 20 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemned the threats against TV21 journalists in Aracinovo, in North Macedonia. On 18 April 2019 a TV21 journalist and cameraman were verbally threatened while carrying out their work. The Editor-in-Chief of TV21 was afer this incident threatened not to publish the recordings.
Vienna, 20 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is supporting the investigative reporting network BIRN and asking Serbian authorities to protetc the journalist. BIRN calls on all relevant institutions in Serbia, especially the Serbian Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office, to react urgently to the latest attacks on our editor Slobodan Georgiev. A day after BIRN published photographs pointing to a connection between Andrej Vucic, the brother of the Serbian President, and Zvonko Veselinovic, a notorious businessman from Kosovo, a campaign started on social networks, attacking and threatening both Georgiev and the investigative portals BIRN, CINS and KRIK. A video recording, available on Twitter from last night, describes Georgiev as a “foreign mercenary”, a “traitor” and as an associate of Albanian and Kosovo politicians. The footage uses cover pages of the pro-government tabloid Informer, which refer to the “lucrative jobs” BIRN has done for foreign donors. Such slurs have been disproven in court. The same clip also targets CINS and KRIK media outlets. The background tone of the recording is the alarm siren used during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. The release of the video has attracted numerous comments that contained insults and threats, some of which have been removed in the meantime. As has happened before, instead of the dealing with the results and evidence presented by investigative media centres, raising awareness about threats to the rule of law, the fight against the corruption and the work of institutions, attention is being directed to editors and journalists who then become targets of attacks.
Vienna, 19 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation condenms the decission made by authorities in Belarus to forbid media to report from an event. Journalists working for news agency BelaPAN, news website TUT.BY, the newspaper Belorusy and and European Radio for Belarus could not cover the annual speech by President Alexander Lukashenko to the people and the National Assembly on 19 April 2019. Two of them have a permanent accredition for reporting in the parliament. Part of her work has focused on cases of plagiarism by high-ranking officials, with some in educational institutions.
Vienna, 16 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is alarmed about the threats against investigative journalist Emilia Șercan. Șercan, working for the website PressOne, received a SMS message with death threats from an unknown number yesterday. In the message the journalist was asked to stop her investigative reporting.
Șercan informed the police about the threat.
Vienna, 9 April 2018
The South East Europe Media Organisation is worried about the information that police searched the office of Belsat TV in Minsk in Belarus. An official confirmed that the search was carried out as part of the investigation of a slander case under Article 188 of the Criminal Code of Belarus.
Vienna, 3 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the threat by a local Islam religious representative in the town Peja, to journalist Diamant Bajra during their phone call.
Vienna, 1 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condenns the last decission by Roskomnadzor, Russian state regulator for media. Roskomnadzor sent a request to the website Yarkub, demanding it delete an article that allegedly insulted the President Vladimir Putin. The article titled “Police began search of a person, who left an insulting graffiti on the building of Yaroslavl ministry of internal affairs” was published today.
Vienna, 1 April 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is alarmed about the information that Kommersant-Ural in Russia received a written death threat after a break-in.
Vienna, 31 March 2019
Medijska organizacija jugoistočne Evrope (SEEMO), iz Beča, osudila je nedavne pretnje televiziji N1 i novinskoj agenciji Beta.
SEEMO osuđuje nedavne pretnje novinarima televizije N1 i glavnom uredniku novinske agencije Beta Draganu Janjiću, navela je ta organizacija.
Prethodno je Komitet za zaštitu novinara, nevladina organizacija sa sedištem u Njujorku, pozvala srpske vlasti da preduzmu neophodne mere da obezbede bezbednost i sigurnost reportera i osoblja TV N1.
Zbog pritisaka na N1 oglasili su se i predstavnik za slobodu medija Organizacije za evropsku bezbednost i saradnju Arlem Dezir,Fridom haus, Međunarodna federacija novinara, Evropska federacija novinara i Ambasada SAD u Srbiji.
Vlasnik televizije N1, Adria News iz Luksemburga, uputio je pisma na više od 130 adresa međunarodnih i nevladinih organizacija, medijskih asocijacija, kao i Evropske unije u kojem je zatražio zaštitu televizije N1 i njenih novinara od kampanje koju protiv N1 vode visoki državni, vladini i funkcioneri vladajuće koalicije.
Vienna, 31 March 2019
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condenns insults and threats from an activist at the office of the Central Election Commission in Kyiv against the correspondent of the independent TV channel Dozhd from Russia, Vladimir Romensky.