Attack on Vojvodina journalist condemned

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO)on Tuesday condemned the physical attack on Csaba Szogi, a journalist with Kepes Ifujsa.

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Wednesday, 20.04.2011.

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The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO)on Tuesday condemned the physical attack on Csaba Szogi, a journalist with Kepes Ifujsa. The paper is the youth supplement of the Hungarian-language daily Magyar Szo, based in Novi Sad, northern Serbia. Attack on Vojvodina journalist condemned Szogi was beaten on 15 April 2011 by several individuals who waited for him in front of public rest rooms in Becej, a town in Serbia´s multiethnic Vojvodina province. Although bruised, Szogi did not require hospitalization. The reporter was covering a youth art competition event. Szogi believes that the attack might have been planned in advance. While hitting him, the attackers repeated the same insults used by the Hungarian nationalist and extreme right-wing internet portal, www.magyarazat.info , where Szogi´s photo is featured. The portal claims the journalist "shames Hungarian culture". Condemning the attack, SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic, said: "I hope that the perpetrators will be soon brought to justice. Journalists should be allowed to work freely in Serbia, without fear or pressure."

Attack on Vojvodina journalist condemned

Szogi was beaten on 15 April 2011 by several individuals who waited for him in front of public rest rooms in Bečej, a town in Serbia´s multiethnic Vojvodina province.

Although bruised, Szogi did not require hospitalization. The reporter was covering a youth art competition event.

Szogi believes that the attack might have been planned in advance. While hitting him, the attackers repeated the same insults used by the Hungarian nationalist and extreme right-wing internet portal, www.magyarazat.info , where Szogi´s photo is featured.

The portal claims the journalist "shames Hungarian culture".

Condemning the attack, SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujović, said: "I hope that the perpetrators will be soon brought to justice. Journalists should be allowed to work freely in Serbia, without fear or pressure."

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