(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 November 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 November, 17 November, 10 November, 30 October 1998 and others** The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly protested today against “continual repressiveness of the information […]
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 November 1998 statement by the
Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its
entirety by AMARC:
**Updates IFEX alerts of 20 November, 17 November, 10 November, 30 October
1998 and others**
The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly protested
today against “continual repressiveness of the information law, the last
victim of which is the ‘Glas Javnosti’ daily.” “As long as such information
law is in force, an accurate, full and prompt public information on public
matters is impossible, unless one is ready to bear drastic consequences,”
the ANEM release says.
The release also argues that “a democratic public information is
inconceivable if the people cannot learn through the media what a public
figure has stated.”
The release calls once again for an urgent abolishment of the law “which has
proved over only a month what can happen when major power levers are used by
individuals with distorted comprehension of free flow of information,
democracy and basic human rights and freedoms.”
