The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe, wishes to express its concern at the recent harassment of journalists working for the investigative newspaper Ziarul de Garda. The message is in a letter signed by SEEMO's secretary general, Oliver Vujovic, addressed to Prime-Minister Zinaida Greceanai and Interior Minister Valentin Mejinschi, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to information before SEEMO, journalists from the weekly investigative newspaper have suffered from continuous harassment by phone and e-mail since the publication of an article on 4 September 2008. The article discussed Moldovan students’ misgivings about the fact that their personal data was given to the Security and Information Service (SIS) by the Ministry of Education. The threats against the journalists included anonymous phone calls and entries on the newspaper’s internet forum warning Ziarul de Garda’s staff that they should stop discussing the SIS in their articles. “SEEMO is deeply concerned about this intimidation of journalists and calls on Your Excellencies to initiate an immediate investigation into this case”, reads the letter of the international organization.