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World Press Freedom Day: Council of Europe platform highlights threats to media in Malta 14 hours ago Malta has a total of nine alerts on the Council of Europe’s platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists, only one of which is marked as “resolved” and another of which is marked as a case of “impunity for murder,” according to its annual report. As the world marks Press Freedom Day, the report, written up by a coalition of press freedom NGOs, journalists federations and media alliances, found that “in 2020, extraordinary damage was inflicted on the ...

Russia: Conviction and arbitrary detention of Sergei Davidis 29/04/2021 Conviction / April 29, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Russian Federation. Description of the situation: The Observatory has been informed about the conviction and arbitrary detention of Sergei Davidis, member of the board of Memorial Human Rights Center (HRC Memorial) [1], a member organisation of FIDH, and director of the HRC Memorial “Suppor...

11:14, 23 April, 2021 YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS. Permanent Representative of Armenia at the UN Mher Margaryan addressed a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding the incendiary rhetoric of the President of Azerbaijan containing threats to use force against the Republic of Armenia. “Such statements come to demonstrate, once again, Azerbaijan’s blatant espousals of ideology of warmongering, violence and incitement of anti-Armenian hatred, and constitute a clearly detectable indication of threat directed not only against the Armenian people and their right to life i...

Time in Yerevan: 11:07:36,   17 April Armenia’s envoy to UN sends letter to Guterres regarding the “military trophy park” in Baku | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency 13:08, 17 April, 2021 YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS. The Permanent Representative of Armenia Mher Margaryan has addressed a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding the inauguration of the so-called “military trophy park” in Baku displaying a most dehumanizing “collection” of grotesque wax figures portraying ethnic Armenians, as well as a macabre exhibition of helmets, equipment and personal be...

Languages Biography Maria Simeonova is the programme coordinator for the Wider Europe programme and ECFR’s Sofia office. She focuses on the Western Balkans and Turkey. Simeonova has previously completed internships at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Bulgaria to the EU, and the European Commission as a Blue Book Trainee at the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development. Prior to joining ECFR, Simeonova was a civil servant at the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance. Simeonova holds a BA degree in International Relatio...