Kosovo

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 1 March 2005 letter to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj: Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj 1st March 2005 Dear Prime Minister, ARTICLE 19, the Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo (AGPK) and the NGO Advocacy, Training and Resource Centre (ATRC), are writing in relation to the Provisional Criminal Code of […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 21 February 2005 ARTICLE 19 press release: ARTICLE 19’s Memorandum analyses the draft Kosovo “Law on the Independent Media Commission and Broadcasting” currently under discussion in the Kosovo Assembly and updates an analysis of an earlier draft from May 2003. We note with satisfaction that many of the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 September 2004 CPJ press release: SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO: Kosovo journalist attacked New York, September 24, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that Fatmire Terdevci, an investigative reporter with the Kosovo independent daily Koha Ditore, was shot and wounded yesterday, according to The Associated Press and […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a letter by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate: Lieutenant General Yves De Kermabon Commander KFOR KFOR Headquarters Pristina, Kosovo Fax: +381 38 503 603 2752 H.E. Bajram Rexhepi Prime Minister of Kosovo Pristina, Kosovo Fax: +381 38 211 202 Vienna, 6 September 2004 Your Excellencies, […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 May 2004 IFJ media release: IFJ Says Kosovo Report Lets Politicians “Off the Hook” By Blaming Media for Violence The International Federation of Journalists today backed its affiliate, the Professional Journalists Association of Kosova, in their protests over a report jointly issued by the Organisation for the Security […]

(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is an ANEM press release: Theft at Pristina’s Radio Kontakt BELGRADE, June 4, 2003 – The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) protests the theft of equipment from Association member-station Radio Kontakt in Pristina. An hour after midnight on May 28, two people in civilian clothes presented themselves at the Radio […]

(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is ANEM’s media update for the week of 1 to 7 December 2001: ANEM WEEKLY MEDIA UPDATE DECEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 7, 2001 SERB MPs REFUSE TO LEAVE AIRPORT AMID PRISTINA SECURITY ROW PRISTINA, December 3, 2001 – Serb members of Kosovo’s new parliament have refused to leave Pristina airport amid […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 October 2001 CPJ press release: KOSOVO: Journalist murdered in drive-by shooting New York, October 22, 2001-An ethnic Albanian journalist in Kosovo was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting last Friday, according to local and international reports. Bekim Kastrati, a journalist for the Albanian-language daily Bota Sot, was […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – During the week of 18 September 2000, the Press and Broadcasting Codes of Conduct in Kosovo were approved and issued. The laws had been criticised by ARTICLE 19, since they were both drafted and are to be implemented by the temporary media commissioner, thus breaching the basic principle under international law that […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release: September 12th 2000 IFJ Condemns Kosovo Killing And Warns Of “Tit-for-Tat” Violence Against Media The International Federation of Journalists, the world?s largest journalists? organisation, today protested the brutal killing of an Albanian reporter and called on warring factions on all sides of Kosovo?s political divide to […]

**Updates IFEX alert of 23 June 2000** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release: UN SETTING ‘DANGEROUS PRECEDENT’ WITH KOSOVO MEDIA REGULATION 30 June 2000 – for immediate release ARTICLE 19 today strongly condemned the UN’s Temporary Press Regulation in Kosovo (1) which has already been used to threaten a local […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 June 2000 CPJ press release: New York, June 22, 2000 — Unknown gunmen shot an editor from Kosovo’s only multi-ethnic radio station in Pristina on Tuesday night, June 20, according to local and international news reports. Valentina Cukic, the editor of Serbian-language programming on Pristina’s Radio Kontakt, was […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 31 March 2000** (IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ press release: IFJ Urges UN to Show Restraint on Emergency Press Law in Kosovo THE INTENTIONS of the international community to impose legal controls on the press in Kosovo were criticised by the International Federation of Journalists, on April 26th. The […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the United Nations mission chief in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, RSF has expressed its concern about the threats against two Kosovar journalists, Veton Surroi and Baton Haxhiu. The organisation demanded that the international community’s representatives pay close attention to this matter. “The statements of Kosova-press, a pseudo press agency controlled […]

(WAN/IFEX) – The following is a WAN press release: Paris, 1 October 1999 For immediate release WAN, UNESCO To Help Rebuild Press Following Kosovo war Just three months after the Serbia-NATO war, the World Association of Newspapers and UNESCO have begun a major programme to help rebuild the independent press in Kosovo and Serbia and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 September 1999 announcement of a CPJ report on reactions to international efforts to censor media hate speech in Kosovo: **For background on the media control system see IFEX alerts of 13 August, 23 June and 22 June 1999** CIVILITY BY DECREE: WHY MANY KOSOVO JOURNALISTS WANT CENSORSHIP Read […]