SAFETY NET NEWS KOSOVO New threats in Kosovo raise concerns, SEEMO calls for action 19 September 2014. The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is once again expressing its deep concerns over this month’s threats journalists in Kosovo have been receiving. After Visar Duriqi, a Kosovar journalist who was threatened in early September, a new case of verbal threats occurred against a media worker. His colleague Artan Haraqija, an Indeksonline journalist received a series of death threats after a joint report the two made about radical Muslim groups in Kosovo. After appearing on a KTV show, Haraqija was threatened, which he immediately reported to the police. SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic expressed his dissatisfaction with the media freedom situation in Kosovo: “We have called on authorities in Kosovo, and now we are asking them once again to protect investigative journalists, and find the perpetrators behind these threats. It is necessary for media workers in Kosovo to act and speak freely, without fearing for their lives on a daily basis”, Vujovic said. SERBIA SEEMO calls authorities in Serbia to protect journalists 19 September 2014. The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) stated its concern with the number of journalists attacked in Serbia over the last six years, with eighteen incidents happening in 2014 alone. Since 2008, over 350 media workers have been attacked either verbally and through threats, or through physical attacks. The Independent Journalist Association of Serbia (NUNS) presented an electronic database containing details of attacks on journalists, in an effort to appeal to the authorities and the public. Over the past two decades, many cases of threats, attacks and even murders of journalists have not been solved in Serbia. SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic expressed full support for this project. “SEEMO welcomes the engagement of Serbian journalistic institutions in bringing awareness to the public, regarding the issue of attacks and threats. Media in Serbia often work in an atmosphere while fearing retaliation for what they publish. Attacks on journalists are a sign of unfulfilled democratic development, and authorities must take a more serious approach in resolving these cases. It is of utter importance both for the public and the journalistic profession in Serbia.”
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:09:29 +0000
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