(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 April, 13 April, 12 April and 9 April 1999** Media Release April 21st 1999 Free Expression Groups World-wide Protest Over NATO Attack on Belgrade Media NATO’s attack on the headquarters of the Serbian Socialist Party in central Belgrade which also targeted […]
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release:
**Updates IFEX alerts of 21 April, 13 April, 12 April and 9 April 1999**
Media Release
April 21st 1999
Free Expression Groups World-wide Protest Over NATO Attack on Belgrade Media
NATO’s attack on the headquarters of the Serbian Socialist Party in central
Belgrade which also targeted media outlets in the same building has led to
protests from a range of free expression groups from around the world.
The annual meeting of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange
(IFEX) in Cape Town gave support to a protest by the International
Federation of Journalists in a letter to NATO Secretary General Javier
Solana at NATO’s change of policy from military to civilian targets,
including media.
Among those supporting the letter and protest are:
The International Press Institute
The International Federation of Journalists
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Media Institute of Southern Africa, Namibia
Article 19, UK
Index on Censorship, UK
International Pen, Writers in Prison Committee
The West African Journalists Association
Freedom House, USA
Association of Independent Media (FRY)
Argentinian Association for the Defence of Independent Journalism
Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights
Internews
World Association of Community Radio (AMARC)
Hong Kong Journalists Association
Glasnost Defence Foundation, Moscow
Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression
Institute for Free Flow of Information, Indonesia
Free Expression, Ghana
Union of Free Radio and Television, Mali
Media for Peace, Congo
Union of Independent Journalists, Togo
Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa
ZimRights, Zimbabwe
Committee to Protect Journalists
