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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.

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.

Srbska akcija is one of the most recognized contemporary neo-Nazi movements in Serbia. It has formed a youth division called Zborska omladina. The group ended up in several annual reports of the ...

Most cybercrimes in Albania are directly related to the misuse of citizens’ personal data, primarily on social media, the head of the police’s Cybercrime Investigations Directorate, Ervina ...

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 ...

As Albanian websites spread falsehoods to discredit women in the media, a culture of silence and weak legal protections leave women journalists increasingly vulnerable.