Croatia

**Updates IFEX alerts of 28 January, 25 January and 20 January 1999** (RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 29 January 1999 RSF press release: Croatia: the regime increases pressure on independent media Authorities in Zagreb are using their newspaper distribution monopoly to choke the last dissenting voices in the run up to legislative elections expected […]

**New case and update to IFEX alerts of 25 January and 20 January 1999** (AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 28 January 1999 press release by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: ANEM press release New forms of pressure against independents in Serbia and Croatia Belgrade — January […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 20 January 1999, 22 December, 21 December, 24 November, 30 September and 19 May 1998, 19 December, 21 October and 6 May 1997, 10 October, 26 September, 19 September, 14 June, 12 June and 8 May 1996** (WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Paris, 25 January 1999 For […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – ARTICLE 19 is extremely concerned to learn that the weekly magazine “Feral Tribune” is under severe financial pressure, due to the withholding of a large sum of money owed to the publication by the state-controlled newspaper distributor, Tisak. It appears to ARTICLE 19 that this latest action follows a pattern whereby the […]

HASH(0x8962ed8) **Updates IFEX alerts of 22 December, 21 December, 24 November, 30 September and 19 May 1998, 19 December, 21 October and 6 May 1997, 10 October, 26 September, 19 September, 14 June, 12 June and 8 May 1996** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a ARTICLE 19 press release further to increased state harassment […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – Zagreb Municipal Court Judge Marin Mrcela on 21 December 1998 once again acquitted “Feral Tribune” editor Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic on charges they insulted Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in an April 1996 article and photomontage in the satirical weekly, CPJ has learned. **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 December, 24 November, 30 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly troubled by the burgeoning number of libel convictions and further harassment of independent newspapers in Croatia. **Updates IFEX alert of 24 November 1998. ** There are currently almost 300 criminal proceedings against journalists, and more than 600 civil law suits against newspapers. In both cases, the majority of plaintiffs are […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The seditious libel trial against deputy editor Viktor Ivancic and correspondent Marinko Culic of the satirical weekly “Feral Tribune” was once again postponed by a Zagreb city court during a 28 September 1998 hearing, CPJ has learned. **For background information see IFEX alerts of 19 May 1998, 19 December, 21 October and 6 […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 18 June 1998, a home-made bomb exploded at the offices of the independent weekly “Imperial”, which are located on a commercial street in Zagreb. The explosion caused extensive material damage. However, nobody was injured. Recommended Action Send appeals to authorities: expressing concern over the bomb attack against “Imperial” and calling for an […]

(RSF/IFEX) – According to information released by RSF on 19 May 1998, on 11 May, authorities closed independent local television station TV Moslavina, which broadcasts from Kutina (southeast of Zagreb). The station also had its licence, which it had held for two years, removed. TV Moslavina’s management regards the actions of the authorities as a […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is greatly concerned about the criminal libel trial initiated by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman against editor-in-chief Viktor Ivancic and correspondent Marinko Culic of the independent weekly “Feral Tribune”, which was scheduled to resume on Monday, 18 May 1998, in Zagreb. **Updates IFEX alerts of 19 December, 21 October and 6 May 1997, […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – According to Article 19, the Croatian Journalists’ Association has launched a campaign to reform Croatia’s defamation laws. The following is the full text of the statement released in support of that campaign: We the undersigned would like to express our whole-hearted support for the initiative announced on 20 April 1998 by the […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – On 20 April 1998, Davor Butkovic, Croatian editor-in-chief of the weekly “Globus”, will be tried for defamation, after reporting on a US-based study which alleges government corruption. The criminal libel suit puts Butkovic at risk of a maximum sentence of 8 years in jail and a US$645,000 fine. Croatia has at least […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – According to CPJ, Davor Butkovic and Vlado Vurusic, the former editor-in-chief and a reporter respectively for the independent weekly “Globus”, were convicted and sentenced on charges of criminal libel. Butkovic and Vurusic were sentenced to suspended jail terms of four months and two months respectively for defaming the country’s Defense Ministry. The charges […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 22 December 1997, criminal proceedings against “Feral Tribune” editor Viktor Ivancic and reporter Marinko Culic will resume. Ivancic and Culic are scheduled to appear at a hearing before the same Zagreb Municipal Court judge that acquitted them on charges of “rudely and falsely slandering the president” on September 26, 1996. The Zagreb […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 4 December 1997, legal proceedings against Davor Buktovic, journalist with the weekly “Globus”, were to begin in a Zagreb court. Charges of “defamation” have been brought against Buktovic by 22 ministers and a former prime minister of Croatia following the recent publication in “Globus” of an article on corruption that was accompanied […]