Articles by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Prosecution and censorship continue
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 8 December 1998 press release by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: ANEM press release Prosecution and Censorship Continue December 8, 1998 Nikola Djuric, general manager of the banned ANEM affiliate City Radio in Nis, has received a summons for a hearing […]
ANEM condemns information law’s repressiveness
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 November 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 November, 17 November, 10 November, 30 October 1998 and others** The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly protested today against “continual repressiveness of the information […]
“Dnevni Telegraf” fined under Serbian Law on Public Information; Radio Index and others still banned
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 9 November 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 28 October, 21 October, 20 October, 14 October, 9 October 1998 and others** On Sunday 8 November, Belgrade’s misdemeanour judge fined the Montenegrin company Dnevni Telegraf and […]
Radio Campus-Bruxelles transmitter seized
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following letter to Madame Laurette Onkelinx, Ministre-Présidente de la Communauté Française, was issued by AMARC Europe on 9 November 1998: Dear Madam Laurette Onkelinx, I am writing on behalf of the European Section of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters to express our concern following news that the transmitter of Radio […]
Criminal charges brought against Radio Index’s chief editor
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 28 October 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alert of 9 October 1998; for background on Radio Index, see IFEX alerts of 3 September and 5 August 1998** On 28 October 1998, Belgrade district public prosecution brought […]
Journalist summoned for questioning; newspaper charged; independent media protest new information law
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 October 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 21 and 20 October 1998** On 23 October 1998, Slavko Curuvija, owner and chief editor of the magazine “Evropljanin” (European), was summoned to a hearing at the […]
Serbia adopts restrictive information law
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 20 October 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **Updates IFEX alert of 20 October 1998** The Serbian Parliament has adopted the new Law on Public Information of the Republic of Serbia The new law: introduces the supposition of guilt […]
Serbian Parliament on verge of passing restrictive information law
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is an 18 October 1998 statement by the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) distributed in its entirety by AMARC: **For background on harassment of independent media in FRY, see recent IFEX alerts, as noted in text** According to ANEM’s information, both the Serbian government and parliament have proposed a privileged […]