Censorship

Students at Istanbul University?s Art History Department have elicited administrative disapproval after a 16th century Italian work they selected for an event poster was deemed ?bawdy? by authorities.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute's (IPI) Turkish National Committee has announced that it will start a campaign against the increasing number of defamation lawsuits targeting journalists in Turkey.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj urged the citizens on Thursday to sign an internet petition against media restrictions and censorship, launched by his party.

Since the collapse of communism and early 1990's, the government control over all the media has never been more apparent, Seselj told a press conference.

The head of Bosnia's Islamic Community, Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic, has condemned what he called "disgusting" a cartoon image of the Prophet Muhammed published in Wednesday's special issue of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

It shows a weeping Prophet holding a "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") sign below the words "All is forgiven".

GERB, the biggest partner in Bulgaria's minority coalition government, on Thursday urged print media publishers to draft anti-defamation legislation.

To avoid potential charges of promoting media censorship, Krasimir Velchev, deputy chairman of centre-right GERB, said he was prepared to initiate a series of meetings with the two unions of Bulgarian publishers to discuss the idea.

After a six-hour debate on media freedom on Thursday in Serbian parliament, the culture and information committee urged the authorities to "vigorously react" to censorship and potential pressures on journalists to ensure pluralism of opinions survived in Serbia.

Parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of lifting New Democracy MP Michalis Tamilos’s immunity for four different cases.

Tamilos faces two charges relating to the time that he was mayor of Trikala and another two that are connected to a business in which he was a partner.

A few months ago the Turkish government offended the feline world by suggesting a cat was responsible for electrical blackouts during the vote counting process after the March local polls.

A few months ago the Turkish government made a fuss offending the feline world for showing them responsible of blackouts during the vote counting process after the local polls.

I have selected art censorship cases from the past three years for you. I selected them because if I had tried to list them all, the whole page of this newspaper would not be adequate.