(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting a recent act of police violence against a cameraman from Kosovo in the town of Pristina, located in the south. According to RSF, on 5 October 1998, Sulejman Klokoqi, cameraman with the American agency APTN, was beaten by police after having been summoned to the police station in Pristina. The […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting a recent act of police violence against a
cameraman from Kosovo in the town of Pristina, located in the south.
According to RSF, on 5 October 1998, Sulejman Klokoqi, cameraman with the
American agency APTN, was beaten by police after having been summoned to the
police station in Pristina. The journalist was repeatedly slapped and beaten
with a truncheon. After forbidding him to leave the town, police advised him
to “work in a more professional manner.”
The police accused Klokoqi of having filmed in Gornje Obrinje (in the centre
of Kosovo), where some twenty civilians had been shot and killed the
previous week.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to the President:
March
1998, no fewer than eight members of the press — a majority of whom have
been ethnic Albanian journalists — have been beaten or otherwise abused by
the police,.
security of all journalists working in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
inquiry into this incident as soon as possible
Appeals To
His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Fax: +381 11 636 775
Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
