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After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Serbia’s government has come under scrutiny for its deployment of hired muscle and plainclothes police against student protesters and their supporters.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Milos Pleskovic is found guilty of the murder of three Kosovo Albanians, shot dead near Prizren while out cutting firewood in September 1998.

This network encompasses populist politicians and parties, media outlets, and think tanks, which propagate Viktor Orban’s illiberal narratives in a bid to plant them in the public consciousness ...

The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian ...

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

The Turkish state must make serious changes if ‘peace’ is to mean anything more than a cessation of the 40-year armed struggle by Kurdish PKK fighters.

Tensions between Greece and Libya have a direct effect on the flow of refugees and migrants arriving on the shores of the island of Crete, in turn pushing Athens to adopt ever more repressive ...

From sexual abuse and AI-generated explicit content to anti-LGBTQ+ campaigns, BIRN’s digital rights monitors across Southeast Europe found that online media is being used to cause harm to ...