News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Freimut Duve: fighting terrorism should not be used as an excuse to violate basic human rights
Publishing date: 27 September 2001
VIENNA, 27 September 2001 (OSCE)-- The world public is still mourning the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Many governments are already actively developing new approaches to their securit...
OSCE Media Representative to hold discussions with journalists in Skopje
Publishing date: 10 September 2001
VIENNA, 10 September 2001 (OSCE)-- For 13 September 2001, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has invited journalists and editors for a one day conference on the tasks, the chances and the challenges of free journalism...
Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus
Publishing date: 21 August 2001
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...
Freimut Duve concerned over attack on journalists in Genoa
Publishing date: 27 July 2001
VIENNA, 27 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 27 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, intervened with the Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero regarding actions by the Italian police against journalists...
Freimut Duve: Russia allows a Tajik journalist to go back to his family
Publishing date: 12 July 2001
VIENNA, 12 July 2001 (OSCE)-- On 12 July, Freimut Duve, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on the recent case of Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev, detained at a Moscow airport...
OSCE Media Representative concerned about detention of Tajik journalist in Russia
Publishing date: 9 July 2001
VIENNA, 9 July 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, expressed his concern about the detention of the Tajik journalist Dododjon Atovulloyev at a Moscow airport a day earlier...
Authors from Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo to meet in Tuzla, 4 July
Publishing date: 2 July 2001
VIENNA, 2 July 2001 (OSCE)-- At the invitation of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, the three founders of the initiative Gruppe 99 will meet in Tuzla on 4 July to lecture and take part in discussions...