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Stones at Freedom of Speech

The B92 web site is not only the most visited Internet portal in the region, but also the most influential source of information on issues, events and developments at the local and regional scale, as well as a dynamic medium that has a considerable impact on political and social life in Serbia and the region.

 

Stones at Freedom of Speech

The Humanitarian Law Center is strongly criticizing the act in which the house of Mirko Ðordevic, a Religion Sociologist, was stoned. This happened in the night from 16 to 17 May. The HLC is also calling upon the Serbian Ministry of Interior to undertake all measures necessary to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice as soon as possible.

 

Public Frequency Allocation Contest and Its Repercussions

A statement in view of the public frequency allocation competition and subsequent events after the results were made public.

 

Council Rides Roughshod Over Media Freedom

Belgrade, April 26, 2006 – The Association of Independent Electronic Media is outraged by last night’s closure of BK Television in Belgrade. The association believes that this rash intervention by the Serbian Broadcast Agency Council is a threat to the legal basis underpinning electronic media operations in Serbia in a way which goes far beyond the present procedure of broadcast license allocation.

 

B92 Journalist and Cameraman Attacked

Belgrade, March 15, 2006 – Radio-television B92 strongly protests over the attack of Slobodan Milosevic's followers on B92 TV crew while covering the gathering in front of the St Sava Hospital in Belgrade, where the body of the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia was kept in the mortuary.

 

Rash And Damaging Amendments

Belgrade, August 23, 2005 - The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) wishes to draw the attention of members of the Serbian Parliament to the potentially serious consequences of adopting amendments to the Broadcast Act which have been drafted in haste and are now proposed by the Government with the support of the Broadcast Agency Council.

 

Mount Witch Hunt For B92

Belgrade, July 7, 2005 – The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) protests most strongly at the witch hunt being conducted by daily tabloids Srpski Nacional and Kurir for ANEM member RTV B92 and journalists Brankica Stankovic, the editor of B92's investigative program Insider.

 

U. S. Embassy Notes Anniversary Of The Bytyqi Brothers Execution In Serbia

U.S. Ambassador Michael C. Polt today urged Serbian authorities to quickly complete their investigation into the disappearance and subsequent killings of Yili, Mehmet and Agron Bytyqi -- three American citizen brothers who were brutally executed in Serbia six years ago this week.

 

City of Belgrade Award for Journalism in 2003

On the basis of Article 10 of the Decision on the City of Belgrade award (City of Belgrade official Gazette No. 5/03), the Award Commission for Journalism, consisting of Slavoljub Djukic (chairman), Neda Todorovic (member), Dusan Radulovic (member) and Srdjan Bogosavljevic (member), at the session of March 31, 2004, made.

 

B92 concert for Tolerance Awardst

Belgrade, November 28, 2002 - The Federal Minorities Ministry is to present individual and corporate awards for contribution to tolerance in Yugoslavia in the past year, at a concert in Belgrade's Sava Centre on December 11.

 

Helsinki Comitee for Human Rights in Serbia: Authorities Cooperate with ICTY to Minimal Extent

Belgrade, Vienna, 30 May 2002 - The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia are urging the government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in order to establish individual guilt for crimes against humanity and to assist Serbian society to understand the tragic events of the past decade in the Balkans

 

Rights to coverage of Milosevic trial

Belgrade, March 14, 2002 - In view of the amount of false information in circulation on this matter, B92 presents the following facts:
- No one has exclusive rights to live broadcasts of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague.
- Any television station wanting to broadcast the trial may subscribe to the Eurovision live coverage broadcasts.
- Any television station with mobile satellite access can connect to the Tribunal's internal television system and broadcast the trial free of charge. This is how B92 is obtaining its live feed.

 

B92 journalists in act of solidarity with Feral Tribune

Belgrade, March 11, 2002 - Journalists from Belgrade's Radio Television B92 have made a donation of 1,000 Euros to Split weekly Feral Tribune following their having been fined 200,000 Croatian kunas and the blocking of their bank accounts.B92 sees this as an obvious attempt to crush critical opinion in Croatia and calls on other broadcasters and publishers to join institutions fighting for the freedom of speech in this solidarity actio

 

Another journalist with a prison sentence

Belgrade, January 27, 2002 - In its statement on the decision of the Belgrade First Municipal Court to give NIN editor-in-chief Stevan Niksic a five-month suspended jail sentence, the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) repeats its stance on the unacceptability of the criminal-legal regulation of slander and insults within Serbian and Yugoslav legislation – It is in breach of the freedoms of expression, press and public information as guaranteed by the constitution

 

ANEM demands urgent adoption of the media legislation

Belgrade, January 22, 2002 - The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) insists on the urgent adoption of the Broadcasting and Public Information Acts.
The delay in adopting new media legislation consistently provokes new "cases," such as the incident involving Tamara Sretenovic, a former journalist at TV Kragujevac, or Vesna Sladojevic, the former editor of Novi Sad television channel Apolo

 

Interference in Radio B92 reception

Belgrade, January 8, 2002 - RTV B92 informs its listeners that it has filed a request with the Federal Ministry of Traffic and Telecommunications following several days of interference in the reception of Radio B92 on 92.5Mhz across most of New Belgrade and part of the city centre. RTV B92 demanded the ministry undertake urgent measures to allow uninterrupted coverage as soon as possible.
Following the release of information concerning interference in the Radio B92 broadcast, RTV B92 editor-in-chief Veran Matic received a telephone threat from people claiming to be calling from "Radio Perper" in Belgrade. One introduced himself as the editor of the radio station. They claimed to have Matic's address and said they would wait for him outside his house. The threat has been reported to the police

 

New political and economic strains on B92

Belgrade January 1, 2002 – Television B92 informs the public, and in particular its viewers in Belgrade and Vojvodina who follow the programming via the IBC Television transmission, that between 9.00pm and 10.00pm on December 31, 2001, IBC Television interrupted the TV B92 transmission and broadcast its own programme.
In March last year, an agreement was reached on business cooperation between Television B92 and IBC Multimedia, the company which founded IBC Television, according to which IBC Television undertook the obligation to transmit the TV B92 programming all day, other than between 12.00 and 1.00pm and 9.00pm to 10.00pm, when IBC Television should broadcast its own programming. IBC Television, however, from the very first day of the contract did not use the opportunity and instead broadcast the B92 programming everyday, without interruption

 


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