European Centre for Press and Media Freedom

Local and international media organisations expressed concern on Wednesday after Kosovo's parliament voted Luljeta Aliu-Krasniqi as member of the board of the Independent Media Commission, IMC.

A woman shows her child a picture of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 January 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN

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Unidentified gunmen early on Monday shot dead a 60-year-old security guard at the premises of national television station Top Channel, Albanian police announced. The event happened under unclear circumstances, they said.

European and Albanian journalists' associations condemned the attack on an Albanian journalist assaulted on Wednesday in his home town of Lezha after he published a news item about a court ruling.

Greek journalist Evangelos Areteos. Photo: Evangelos Areteos/Facebook

Gurkan Ozturan, coordinator of Media Freedom Rapid Response at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, said that the decision should be reversed.

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The threats were sent from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from Turkey, on June 28, and since then, after BIRN published an investigation into the Grey Wolves organisation's branch and its activities in Bosnia.

Kuloglija and Buyuk continued to receive messages on their phones with intimidating content after the publication of the article.

Ukrainian journalist Lyudmila Makey said on Monday after becoming the first to be hosted as part of the Journalists-in-Residence Kosovo Programme that she was thankful for the safe haven amid the Russian invasion of her home country.

Activists protest in Tirana against new laws targeting online media on 19 December 2019. Photo: LSA

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"More governments arrested users for nonviolent political, social, or religious speech than ever before. Officials suspended internet access in at least 20 countries, and 21 states blocked access to social media platforms," says the report entitled Freedom on the Net 2021.

Vienna – A number of international journalism and media freedom organisations have signed a joint statement urging the Slovenian government and the Government Communication Office (UKOM) “to immediately end the economic suffocation of the STA and take steps to ensure sustainable funding before its collapse”.