(IFJ/IFEX) – On 29 January 1998, Serbian police confiscated video tapes belonging to Duska Jurisic, a journalist with the Television of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Fifteen tapes were seized and included footage shot in Kosova and Prishtina and material concerning recent protests by Albanian students. The tapes, confiscated at the Macedonian border, included interviews with Mahmut […]
(IFJ/IFEX) – On 29 January 1998, Serbian police confiscated video tapes
belonging to Duska Jurisic, a journalist with the Television of Bosnia and
Hercegovina. Fifteen tapes were seized and included footage shot in Kosova
and Prishtina and material concerning recent protests by Albanian students.
The tapes, confiscated at the Macedonian border, included interviews with
Mahmut Bakali, Adem Demaci, Azem Vlasi, Momcilo Trajkovic, Fehmi Agani,
Albin Kurti, and Jonas Weis, Second Secretary of the Swedish embassy in
Yugoslvia. Jurisic, who had obtained the permission of the Ministry of
Information of the Republic of Serbia to work in the territories of Kosovo
and Metohija form 26 to 29 January 1998, was questioned for two hours before
being released.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
professional journalist who was exercising her profession with the
permission from the Serbian authorities
freedom of expression and that of her employer’s but also to an attack on
the free circulation of information throughout former Yugoslavia
fundamental principles of free expression and opinion and a lack of
understanding among police officers
undamaged and that all police officers are informed that such actions are
unacceptable
Appeals To
Carlos Westendorp
High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Fax: +387 71 44 74 20Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Minister of Internal Affairs
BelgradeAmbassador Robert Barry
OSCERadmila Milentijevic
Minister of Information
Belgrade
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