The IFJ/FIEJ Coordinating Centre reports that four senior journalists employed by Radio Zid have been mobilised into the Army of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Radio Zid had been promised special recognition by Sarajevo authorities and was granted 32 civilian work permits to ensure that the station could remain on the air. Radio Zid has used only […]
The IFJ/FIEJ Coordinating Centre reports that four senior
journalists employed by Radio Zid have been mobilised into the
Army of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Radio Zid had been promised
special recognition by Sarajevo authorities and was granted 32
civilian work permits to ensure that the station could remain on
the air. Radio Zid has used only six of the 32 military
dispensations in order to maintain the service. The IFJ is
concerned that the decision to force four of the radio’s staff
into military service — Deputy Director, Editor in Chief,
Programme Editor, and Entertainment Programme Director —
threatens the future of Radio Zid. The independent media
community of Sarajevo, of which Radio Zid has been a
professional, tolerant and prominent member, will suffer if this
action is maintained.
Recommended Action
Please write to the president and minister of Education of
Bosnia:
building of a democratic society
taken to undermine the work of independent media in Bosnia-
Hercegovina
Appeals To
Enes Karic
Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport
Vojvode Putnika 3
71000 Sarajevo
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alia Izetbegovic
President
Sarajevo
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fax: + 871 144 62 55
Tadeusz Mazsowiecki
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the former Yugoslavia
