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[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

A group of journalists and citizens gathered in front of the Prosecutor's Office for High-Tech Crime in Belgrade today.

They gather after @BIRN_Network editor from Serbia, @SlobaGeorgiev, was labelled a ‘traitor’ in a video distributed via Twitter.

Bkgd: https://t.co/XH5ZZWkjnm

[BIRN @BIRN_Network]

🚨 ATTACK ON @BIRN_Network

We’re calling on all relevant authorities, especially Serbia’s Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor's Office, to react urgently after @birnsrbija’s editor Slobodan Georgiev was vilified in an online video.

#mediafreedom
https://t.co/qZznOYkEWg

[IDM Albania @IDM_Albania]

NEW | IDM Annual Report 2018 - an overview of IDM’s main activities, research and finances and takes stock of the institutes’ achievements and impact during 2018. >> https://t.co/0Ecaipgbw8

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

COMMENT | Three years ago, Albania embarked on an ambitious plan to radically overhaul its justice system, but now this extraordinary vetting process is decimating the ranks of local judges and prosecutors.

By @BesarLikmeta.
https://t.co/yLsFik8sL7

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

https://t.co/BtWYXpKGKb

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

INVESTIGATION | Freedom Of Information Act requests have historically put politicians in the dock.

But Montenegro's govt is chipping away at transparency laws, making it difficult for journalists to do their jobs.

Produced for the 2018 @BIRNFellowship
https://t.co/01myhSZEVU

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Around 1,000 police officers are on the streets of Tirana now as protesters gather for today’s major anti-govt rally, which many fear will erupt into violence and could include a storming of parliament.

More on the demonstration: https://t.co/oaoSsS2rYz

[IDM Albania @IDM_Albania]

A missing experience & key to public safety was considered today's public accountability meeting by the mayor, local police and prosecution office in Mat municip.

Very well articulated youth group "Voice of 16+".
@ElgaMitre @PoliciaeShtetit

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Today, thousands of protesters clashed with police in an anti-govt rally held this afternoon in Tirana.

About 15 people, including five police officers were injured and are under medical assistance from the today protest, reports the Ministry of Health.

https://t.co/OJ2DzygIrb

[BCBP @bezbednost_org]

In an atmosphere where the critics are called traitors, it's no wonder individuals get thise ideas. We are threatened with "destruction from first to last if we don't leave Serbia". We are staying where we are and we will keep demanding responsibility! https://t.co/2TIkgGQOzL

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

In Albania, #transparency is lacking both in the way the #police budget is used and how police personnel get promoted or punished, coupled with worse working conditions than the rest of the region. This was concluded at the event organized by @IDM_Albania. https://t.co/YVrhon9k6C

[BCBP @bezbednost_org]

🎉 The BCSP is continuing to be the best ranked #Balkans think-thank on the Defence & National #Security and #ForeignPolicy & International Affairs lists of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report! https://t.co/s1Gzdr2SKo

#thinktanksmatter #WesternBalkans #Serbia

[CSS BiH @CSS_BiH]

We are happy to announce that @CSS_BiH is for the third time in a row the best ranked think-thank from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Top Think Tanks in Central and Eastern Europe list of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report published by @TTCSP https://t.co/MR4RB7lzGM

[BIRN @BIRN_Network]

🔊 OPPORTUNITY FOR JOURNALISTS

We're looking for 10 reporters from the Balkans to take part in our 2019 @BIRNFellowship!

You’ll get:
€2K bursary
Up to €2K for travel, research
Mentoring
International seminars
+ more

Here’s everything you need to know: https://t.co/O2QIJ1T0U4

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

Social media enable new forms of connecting police with the community and gaining information from concerned citizens. But no one is monitoring messages 24/7. Should police services start responding to emergency messages via social media? https://t.co/irOxnqRCmo

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Individuals, police and politicians have been the most frequent targets of attacks involving guns, grenades, arson or explosives in Kosovo's lawless north since 2014.

Two of them were fatal.

Read the investigation: https://t.co/2JnPsw01o6

#BFJE2018

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

The attitude towards professional and objective media is becoming worse and worse, while verbal attacks escalate into violence, demonstrated by the arson attack on a local journalist who reported on corruption.
Top 5 criminal cases in Serbia in 2018 ➡ https://t.co/qDBUQxIgdU

[Balkan Insight @BalkanInsight]

Exactly a year after Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic was shot dead, we reveal our investigation into the prevalence of gun and bomb attacks in northern Kosovo.

The numbers:

74 attacks since 2014
2 fatalities
0 people ever brought to trial

#BFJE2018
https://t.co/yMRJYlqLai

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

@SamMorter @ap_org @BIRNSrbija It was certainly not the intention with this tweet. The use of polygraph test results was one of the key controversial points in this case, which we wanted to highlight.

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

The person whose name the Serb Kosovo politician stressed in his last interview for @BIRNSrbija has been cleared based on a polygraph test. Exactly what he said is unknown since police declared that record top secret. Cases that marked 2018 in Serbia: https://t.co/qDBUQxZRCu

[BIRN @BIRN_Network]

Want training in the areas of disinformation and fact-checking, strategic communication to counter online radicalisation, social media and data journalism?

The @ResonantVoices Fellowship could be for you!

Find out more and apply: https://t.co/yyouiTxIbt

[POINTPULSE @POINTPULSEnet]

Murder of a prominent lawyer in #Belgrade caused fear among his colleagues. #Police and other relevant state authorities failed in this case because there is still a lack of known facts, journalists point out. https://t.co/qDBUQxZRCu