(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is expressing extreme concern about reports that the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) has used a military tribunal to impose prison sentences on Nebojsa Radosevic and Vladimir Dobricic, both journalists working for the Yugoslav State News Agency (Tanjug). The organisation is also disturbed that the Red Cross has apparently been refused […]
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is expressing extreme concern about reports
that the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) has used a military tribunal to impose
prison sentences on Nebojsa Radosevic and Vladimir Dobricic, both
journalists working for the Yugoslav State News Agency (Tanjug). The
organisation is also disturbed that the Red Cross has apparently been
refused access to the two journalists.
**Further to IFEX alerts of 3 November and 19 October 1998**
ARTICLE 19 is concerned with upholding the right to peaceful freedom of
expression in line with international standards, as well as upholding the
rule of international law. The UCK has no authority to pass or implement
laws or regulations within Kosovo and is therefore not empowered to judge
people and deprive them of their liberty.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
Conventions regarding the rights of journalists in situations of conflict,
which provides that “journalists shall be considered as civilians and shall
be protected as such”
4 of
1996 has specified that the Protocol should also apply to non-international
armed conflicts
Slavuj, and Ranko Peranic, his driver, who have been missing since they were
last seen in south-west Kosovo on 21 August 1998
framework in Kosovo
international community, asking them to take into account such extra-legal
measures when assessing their stance towards their organisation
Co-operation and Security in Europe to monitor such activities
Appeals To
Adem Demaqi
Political Representative of the UCK
Pristina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
