(AMARC/IFEX) – Twenty-three IFEX members pledge support to solidarity appeal for independent media workers in FRY: At the IFEX 1999 meeting in Cape Town, 23 IFEX members signed up to the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters – AMARC – World Press Freedom Day action for independent media workers in distress in and from FRY. […]
(AMARC/IFEX) – Twenty-three IFEX members pledge support to solidarity appeal
for independent media workers in FRY:
At the IFEX 1999 meeting in Cape Town, 23 IFEX members signed up to the
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters – AMARC – World Press
Freedom Day action for independent media workers in distress in and from
FRY. This AMARC-led action is an international campaign of solidarity with
Radio B92 and fifty other independent broadcasters from the Association of
Independent Electronic Media – ANEM.
The AMARC action is being launched in protest at the blanket repression of
broadcast and other media in and from FRY. AMARC calls on supporters of
freedom of expression to join this campaign to assure the safety and
continuing work of these independent media activists during this time of
extreme crisis and war.
The long-term campaign goal of this AMARC-led international solidarity
action is to get Radio B92 and all other ANEM stations back on the air and
broadcasting free information as soon as possible. To enable them to realise
this goal, the AMARC-led action aims to twin fellow broadcasters, radio and
television stations, freedom of expression organisations and activists from
around the world with journalists and other staff from these independent
media in the region.
Radio B92 and ANEM have won world-wide acclaim for their commitment during
the past ten years to countering nationalist rhetoric, hatred and war in the
Balkans.
Among those IFEX members supporting the campaign are:
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Committee to Protect Journalists
Index on Censorship
Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka
Instituto Prensa y Sociedad, Peru
Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay
Reporters’ Association of Thailand
Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa
Media Watch, Bangladesh
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Article 19
Pacific Islands News Association
Hong Kong Journalists Association
Freedom House
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Institute for the Studies on Free Flow of Information, Indonesia
Periodistas, Argentina
Glasnost Defence Foundation, Russia
Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression
International Press Institute
West African Journalists Association
Greek Helsinki Monitor
