Kosovo: Police harass reporters

Kosovo police, KPS, harassed two crews of reporters as they returned from a <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=03&dd=13&nav_id=57791" class="text-link" target= "_blank">protest Serbs had staged in the village of Šilovo</a>, near Gnjilane, on Friday.

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Kosovo police, KPS, harassed two crews of reporters as they returned from a protest Serbs had staged in the village of Silovo, near Gnjilane, on Friday. The Glas Juga television production and Radio KiM from Caglavica were leaving the village when a KPS vehicle overtook and intercepted them. A policeman came out of the car, approached the reporters' vehicle, and, according to cameraman Bojan Kosanin, pulled him out of the car and started kicking him. Kosovo: Police harass reporters KPS regional spokesman Ismet Hasani says this was a routine control. "He pushed me onto the car, started kicking my legs, behaved extremely rough. He did not ask for my documents, or anything else, he was searching me. I told him, easy, there's no need for that," said Kosanin. "Then he started searching the vehicle, still without asking for any documents or anything else. Then they started thir car and left," the cameraman recounted. Hasani says that he had information that "a control point was there". "They regularly controlled vehicles, but I have no information that anyone was hurt. You see, that man should come to us, to find out who it is, where exactly," the spokesman was quoted as saying. Journalist Marijana Simic, who also witnessed the incident, says that it was planned in advance and that its message was to intimidate all Serb reporters in Kosovo. "Regardless of these claims from the police, if this is the way to carry out a routine control, then I have no idea what brutality and demonstration of force is supposed to look like," she said. "This is a clear indicator that it was a demonstration of force, this is proof of how we live, under what conditions we live, how we work and I think that, although we feel humiliated, it will not stop us from continuing our work and returning to the Silovo protests," Simic said.

Kosovo: Police harass reporters

KPS regional spokesman Ismet Hasani says this was a routine control.

"He pushed me onto the car, started kicking my legs, behaved extremely rough. He did not ask for my documents, or anything else, he was searching me. I told him, easy, there's no need for that," said Košanin.

"Then he started searching the vehicle, still without asking for any documents or anything else. Then they started thir car and left," the cameraman recounted.

Hasani says that he had information that "a control point was there".

"They regularly controlled vehicles, but I have no information that anyone was hurt. You see, that man should come to us, to find out who it is, where exactly," the spokesman was quoted as saying.

Journalist Marijana Simić, who also witnessed the incident, says that it was planned in advance and that its message was to intimidate all Serb reporters in Kosovo.

"Regardless of these claims from the police, if this is the way to carry out a routine control, then I have no idea what brutality and demonstration of force is supposed to look like," she said.

"This is a clear indicator that it was a demonstration of force, this is proof of how we live, under what conditions we live, how we work and I think that, although we feel humiliated, it will not stop us from continuing our work and returning to the Šilovo protests," Simić said.

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