Journalist with Albanian-language newspaper arrested
(RSF/IFEX) – On 25 September 1997, two uniformed police officers entered the offices of the Albanian-language daily “Koha Ditore”, located in Pristina, and arrested one of the paper’s three associate editors-in-chief, Baton Haxhiu. He was released after being questioned by police. The officers also seized documents pertaining to the two other associate editors-in-chief, Yiber Hysa […]
Authorities dismiss top management at Studio B television
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 30 September 1997, after ousting the opposition mayor of Belgrade, Zoran Djindjic, from office, the combined forces of the Serbian Socialists, Radicals and the Renewal Movement moved to sack the top management at the popular municipal television station Studio B TV and replace them with their own supporters. Zoran Ostojic and Lila […]
Serbian elections will not be free nor fair
(Human Rights Watch/IFEX) – Elections in Serbia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on 21 September 1997 will be neither free nor fair, declared Human Rights Watch/Helsinki on 18 September 1997. State control of the media and a lack of accountability for police brutality following last year’s elections seriously undermine the legitimacy of Sunday’s vote. “An […]
Journalist taken in for questioning; camera of another confiscated
(RSF/IFEX) – On 12 September 1997, three police officers entered the office of the Albanian-language daily “Koha Ditore” in Pristina and took journalist Baton Haxhiu to the police station for questioning. Haxhiu was interrogated for two hours regarding his meetings with foreign diplomats, politicians and students. According to the newspaper’s directors, the police wanted information […]
Journalist Ramadam Mucolli arrested
Ramadam Mucolli was arrested at his home on the morning of 27 June 1995 by three uniformed policemen. According to members of his family, the journalist’s dictaphone and passport were confiscated. An independent journalist and member of the Kosovo Journalists’ Union, Ramadam Mucolli has been harassed in the past. He was interrogated by police at […]
PEN protests harassment of writers and journalists in Kosovo
The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN wrote to President Milosevic of Serbia on 19 June 1995 expressing concern at the continued pattern of harassment and arrest of writers and journalists in Kosovo. Indicative of this pattern of abuse of the rights to freedom of expression are the reports of the arrest and in […]