(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is an 8 October 2000 ANEM press release: BELGRADE, Sunday, October 8, 2000 – ANEM and Radio B2-92’s campaign for freedom of speech, as well as being effective within Yugoslavia, has been successful at several great festivals throughout the world. The Free Press – Made in Serbia poster was awarded a […]
(ANEM/IFEX) – The following is an 8 October 2000 ANEM press release:
BELGRADE, Sunday, October 8, 2000 – ANEM and Radio B2-92’s campaign for freedom of speech, as well as being effective within Yugoslavia, has been successful at several great festivals throughout the world. The Free Press – Made in Serbia poster was awarded a Silver World Medal for Peace and Human Rights in New York 99; it also won an award for Excellence in Design at Brighton 2000, and was a finalist at the Epica Awards in Glasgow last year and in the Clio Awards in New York this year.
Because of this poster, TV Soko editor-in-chief Nebojsa Ristic spent a year in prison. The poster’s designer, Igor Avzner, says: “The struggle to break the inner and outer prison of Serbia is under way, as is the struggle to break censorship and self-censorship in providing information. I sincerely hope that, with the coming of a new, democratic leadership, I will never have to consider Information Acts, University Acts or any other written or unwritten forms of repression of free thought and free expression of opinion.”
During the past month, ANEM has been broadcasting an extraordinary video promotion by Avzner presenting an image of the media scene in Serbia. The clip has won an award at the prestigious Portoroz Festival.