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28 Mar

Serbia: Spyware attacks on BIRN journalists further deepen press freedom crisis

Press freedom in Serbia faces a major threat as Amnesty confirms Pegasus spyware attacks on BIRN journalists.

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28 Mar

Turkey: MFRR partners call for an end to crackdown on journalists covering political protests

Turkey’s authorities are silencing journalists with detentions, police violence and media bans. MFRR demands an end to this crackdown.

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24 Mar

Groups urge US to protect press freedom and keep journalists safe after order to gut USAGM

Urgent call to safeguard USAGM journalists reporting from authoritarian regimes.

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20 Mar

Romania: Answers needed over surveillance of investigative journalist

International media freedom organizations raise concerns over the surveillance of Romanian journalist Victor Ilie by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).

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14 Mar

Serbia: One year of unpunished attacks on journalist Dinko Gruhonjić, the culture of impunity must end

The members of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium and partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform are deeply concerned about the ongoing year-long persecution campaign against journalist Dinko Gruhonjić.

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11 Mar

SafeJournalists Network and Media Freedom Rapid Response: TikTok ban in Albania threatens freedom of expression ahead of general elections

SafeJournalists Network (SJN), the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners, and civil society organisations express serious concern regarding the Albanian Council of Ministers' decision on March 6, 2025, to suspend nationwide access to the TikTok platform for 12 months.

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10 Mar

Georgia: Independent Journalism and Media Pluralism on the Brink

MFRR Partners warn that a new wave of repressive legislation threatens Georgian independent journalism with imminent extinction.

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5 Mar

MFRR and SJN condemn adoption of foreign agent legislation in Bosnia’s entity Republika Srpska

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners and SafeJournalists Network (SJN) strongly condemn the adoption of legislation in the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina which will establish a "special registry” of NGOs, many of which are independent media.

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28 Feb

ECPMF kritisiert die kleine Anfrage der CDU/CSU und steht solidarisch hinter Medienorganisationen und der Zivilgesellschaft

ECPMF verurteilt die kleine Anfrage der CDU/CSU zur politischen Neutralität und solidarisiert sich mit Medienorganisationen und der Zivilgesellschaft.

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27 Feb

Lithuania: Media freedom groups warn LRT audit risks threatening editorial independence

The undersigned international media freedom and journalist groups today raise the alarm over a planned “political neutrality” audit recently approved by the supervisory body of the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) and warn that the unjustified measure could negatively affect editorial independence at the public broadcaster.

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