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Proposals to regulate 'toxic' online media content by law have drawn concern from the Press Council of Kosovo and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo, which have described the initiative as 'harmful'.
Freedom of speech experts say court order to seize the equipment of the Lapsi media outlet – which exposed the existence of a secret voters' database – is just another attempt by Albania's authorities to intimidate journalists.
Data from the Audiovisual Media Authority has confirmed that television stations in Albania have largely broken the law by giving preference to the ruling Socialist Party during the first two weeks of the electoral campaign.
RSF: Bulgarian media are still the least free in the EU and in South East Europe as the few outspoken journalists are victims of smear campaigns, harassment by the state, intimidation and violence.
Kosovo marked a decrease of eight places in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index for 2021.
Report by Reporters Without Borders: Media freedom suffered in Central and South East Europe during the pandemic with increasing government censorship and attacks on journalists.
Croatia ranks 56th out of 180 countries on the organisation’s annual Press Freedom Index, moving up three notches after ranking 59th in the previous report.
United Media, an international company operating in Serbia, said that it warned the public, local and European institutions on several occasions about the worrying level of violations of media freedom that it faced and is facing again.
The director of Prishtina-based online newspaper ‘Insajderi’, Parim Olluri was summoned for questioning by the Kosovo Police following the publication of an article that said that the Minister of Health, Arben Vitia refused to sign a contract to supply Pfizer vaccines.
The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom has expressed its concerns regarding the SPAK order for journalists Andi Bushati and Armand Shkullaku to hand over a database that contained the personal information of more than 910,000 voters in Albania.
