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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