Vienna, 17 December 2018
The Vienna South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns explosion that badly damaged today in the early hours the facade of the headquarters of TV and radio Skai. Skai is one leading broadcasters in Greece.
Short before the explosion anonymous warning calls were made to other media outlets.
Vienna, 13 December 2018
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is alarmed about the attack on journalist Milan Jovanovic (Milana Jovanović) in Serbia. Milan Jovanovic’s home in the Belgrade suburb Grocka was badly damaged by a fire yesterday on 12 December. The fire was started by Molotov cocktails. Milan Jovanovic and his wife were home at the time. They escaped unhurt by getting out through a back window. Jovanovic is working for the webportal Žig info (https://ziginfo.rs/). SEEMO is asking the authorities in Serbia to start a fast investigation in this case.
Vienna, 2 November 2018
South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) calls on the Bulgarian authorities to stop harassing Ivo Prokopiev, Economedia group owner.
Prokopiev, who is publisher of the leading financial weekly Capital, is to be prosecuted on money laundering charges, the prosecutor’s office has announced on 26 October.
Vienna, 2 November 2018
The South East Europe Media Organisation is alarmed about new steps by Hungarian state against a journalist.
Hungarian authorities should immediately drop criminal charges against investigative reporter András Dezső. Dezső, works for Hungary’s news webportal Index.hu.
The charges against Dezső a connected to his article from 12 March 2018 in which he wrote about the background of a Sweden-based Hungarian woman whose interview was used by the government in the run-up to April 8 elections to support its anti-Muslim campaign. rhetoric.
Vienna, 15 October 2018
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is alarmed about the killing of the journalist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi. According to different sources and information, the prominent Saudi journalist- was killed in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul in the beginning of October..
Vienna, 10 October 2018
Today in the morning hours, in the part of Belgrade Lestane, the editor in cihef of Žig Info Željko Matorčević was attacked. A young man, about 20 years old, followed Matorcevic a few hundred meters and then hit him in the back of the head.
The South East Europe Media Organisation sent a letter to Serbian authorites to investigate urgently this attack.
Vienna, 24 September 2018
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is alarmed about the arrest of three journalists from the Greek daily newspaper Fileleftheros on defamation charges. The publisher Thanassis Mavridis, editor-in-chief Panayiotis Lampsias and political editor Katerina Galanou spent a night in jail.
“The detention was the result of a criminal defamation charges by the Minister of Defence relating to a story about the alleged misuse of European Union funds
The Minister filed charges also against four other journalists from the newspaper.
“Greece must urgently decriminalize defamation” said Oliver Vujovic, SEEMO Secretary General.