Udruženja: Hitan sastanak sa Zagorkom Dolovac

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BEOGRAD, 23.11.2017. – Novinarska i medijska udruženja uključena u rad Stalne radne grupe za bezbednost novinara – zahtevaju da se hitno, najduže u roku od deset dana, održi sednica tog tela kojoj će prisustvovati i republički javni tužilac Zagorka Dolovac i na kojoj će nam pojasniti razloge zbog kojih su odbačene krivične prijave novinara koji su napadnuti tokom inauguracije predsednika Aleksandra Vučića, odnosno saopštiti da li će i koje poteze RJT preduzeti na anuliranju posledica sramne odluke Prvog osnovnog javnog tužilaštva u Beogradu.

Na sastanku ćemo tražiti objašnjenja i u vezi sa neprihvatljivim obrazloženjem odbacivanja prijava kojim su praktično sami novinari optuženi za pokušaj izazivanja nereda među pristalicama SNS, prisutnim na skupu podrške.

O daljem statusu asocijacija i udruženja u Stalnoj radnoj grupi odlučićemo nakon što dobijemo odgovore na ova pitanja, a do tog sastanka ne vidimo razloga za ponovo sastajanje Radne grupe čiji smo članovi.

Novinarska udruženja i asocijacije smatraju da je reč o dramatično ozbiljnim problemima koji snažno opterećuju rad novinara u Srbiji i da je potrebno razjasniti sve dileme koje u vezi sa ovim slučajem postoje.

U međuvremenu, novinarska i medijska udruženja će u dogovoru sa oštećenim novinarima preduzeti sve pravne poteze kako bi se zaštitila njihova prava, ali i elementarna pravda.

Uvereni smo da je nakon pomenute odluke Tužilaštva bezbednosna situacija gora nego kada smo ušli u Stalnu radnu grupu.

Ključni slučajevi iz prošlosti, poput ubistva Dade Vujasinović i Milana Pantića i postavljanja bombe pod prozor Dejana Anastasijevića, prebijanja Davora Pašalića i Ivana Ninića, i dalje su nerasvetljeni. Isto važi i za slučajeve ugrožavanja bezbednosti novinara koji su se dogodili od trenutka formiranja Grupe, kao što su snimanje novinara Južnih vesti Predraga Blagojevića, upad u stan Dragane Pećo i brojne pretnje smrću drugim novinarima.

Novinarska i medijska udruženja ostaju snažno posvećena traganju za institucionalnim rešenjem problema bezbednosti novinara. Istovremeno, očekujemo da policija i tužilaštvo nastave da izvršavaju obaveze preuzete Sporazumom o saradnji i merama za podizanje nivoa bezbednosti novinara i da intenziviraju rad u toj oblasti, shodno činjenici da njihove dosadašnje aktivnosti nisu dale očekivane rezultate.

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NEZAVISNO UDRUŽENJE NOVINARA SRBIJE i NEZAVISNO DRUŠTVO NOVINARA VOJVODINE: Sramna odluka Tužilaštva o odbacivanju krivičnih prijava protiv napadača na novinare

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BEOGRAD – NOVI SAD – NIŠ, 17.11.2017. – Nezavisno udruženje novinara Srbije i Nezavisno društvo novinara Vojvodine smatraju da je odluka Prvog osnovnog javnog tužilaštva u Beogradu da odbaci krivične prijave zbog napada na novinare tokom inauguracije Aleksandra Vučića sramna i da predstavlja još jedan dokaz da pravosudni sistem u Srbiji ne radi u skladu sa pravom i pravdom već isključivo interesima vlasti i vladajućih stranaka.

Obrazloženje odluke Tužilaštva predstavlja poseban cinizam i zamagljivanje više nego evidentnih činjenica koje su građani Srbije imali priliku da vide u medijima na fotografijama koje su prikazali nasilje aktivista Srpske napredne stranke nad novinarima tokom inauguracije predsjednika Aleksandra Vučića 31. maja 2017. godine.

NUNS i NDNV će poslije ove odluke Tužilaštva razmotriti svoj status u stalnoj radnoj grupi za bezbjednost novinara, koju čine predstavnici Republičkog javnog tužilaštva, Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova i novinarskih i medijskih udruženja, pošto se ozbiljno postavlja pitanje smisla njegovog postojanja s obzirom na poražavajuće rezultate nadležnih državnih organa u zaštiti bezbednosti novinara.

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CJA condemns HRT Management’s attack against its journalist Aleksandar Stanković

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ZAGREB, 23.11.2017. – Croatian Journalists’ Association (CJA) condemns HRT Management’s reaction related to the latest show „Sunday at 2“ of Aleksandar Stanković, its author and host. HRT published press release saying „Croatian Radio Television (HRT), highly regarding the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and the Parliament Declaration on Homeland War, distance itself from standpoints expressed in the ‘Saturday at 2’ show at November 19. In the show Aleksandar Stanković, its host, repeatedly referred to the Homeland War as to ‘civil war’.“

CJA finds that reaction o be hypocritical attack of HRT Management against its journalist and one more example of not obeying professional standards when talking program that a public media should be based on. CJA finds it to be petty-political rhetoric close to populist attacks and the one accommodated not to alarm politicians in power.

It is evident from the transcript of Stanković’s conversation with his guest Predrag Mišić what Stanković actually said. It is clear to everybody knowing facts that Croatia was attacked after it had proclaimed independency and that was not challenged by Stanković in any way. But the dialogue with the guest was partly about specifics of the Homeland War and some civil war elements in it inspired by personal guest’s experience and fate.

Even so, the HRT Management finds that kind of debate to be inadmissible on public media service in spite of the fact that even the Croatian Constitution Court pointed out, without any doubt, at January 12, 2015, in its reasons offered for not taking into account suit related to war crime: „Armed conflict in Croatia had non-international character until October 8, 1991. After that date it became international …at events prior to October 8, 1991 Additional Protocol 11 of Geneva Convention about non-international armed conflicts is to be applied…“.

At the same time the HRT Management is not disturbed by hosting those who defend persons accused of war crimes committed before October 8, 1991 referring to the quoted decision of the Constitution Court. They are welcome to state in the HRT program that until October 8, 1991 in Croatia there was „civil war“ going on but the HRT journalist is not allowed to utter about it without being renounced publicly by the HRT Management.

Above all HRT leading persons hide behind the Croatian Constitution that has not been challenged by our colleague Stanković in any way (while they have no objections regarding those who in the HRT program state things that violate constitution rights of some other subjects regularly). They even refer to the Parliament Declaration on Homeland War as if that document was dogma.

By that action the HRT Management once more confirmed that they do not consider the institution they are managing to be public media service but the state agency under political control. Consequently, they symbolically put HRT in the state Croatia has left – in Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia from its most rigid period.

Support for former MPM employees

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SKOPJE, 23.11.2017 – The Independent Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers (SSNM) supports the request of former Media Print Macedonia (MPM) and Media Print employees for payment of unpaid salaries and fees, after their respective newspapers were closed.

SSNM is solidifying with the former employees of MPM and Media Print and with their request sent to the competent institutions, for solving the criminal cases related to MPM and Media Print as soon as possible, in order to find a way for paying the unpaid salaries and other financial compensations (which were calculated and determined by MPM) and which are constitutionally guaranteed for every worker.

Due to suspicions of criminal activity, SSNM in June this year, filed criminal charges against the owner and company director Srdjan Kerim and Jana Stanisavljeva for abusing the official position and authority, because they consciously and intentionally busted the property of the company aiming to close down their own media.

SSNM urges the competent institutions to seriously deal with this case, in order to solve it as fast as possible and pay the unpaid wages to nearly 400 former employees in the company.

SSNM believes that the main culprit for closing the newspapers and online media is the management of the company, which instead of allowing employees to report professionally like in all democratic societies, decided to serve the politics and political affiliations of the management.

Selmani: The government wants to have a monopoly over the truth

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SKOPJE, 23.11.2017 – The Association of Journalists of Macedonia and the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, yesterday in Skopje, presented an analysis of the effects of the application of the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services on editorial freedom. The analysis was prepared by expert teams of the Institute and AJM within the project funded by the Delegation of the European Union in Skopje.

The director of the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Katerina Kolozova, while presenting the findings from the analysis, said that the Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services is too detailed, and even determines which program will be broadcasted when it will be broadcasted.

“The law on audio and audiovisual media services limits the freedom of expression and, moreover, introduces censorship and self-censorship in the media. The provisions of the law are proof of the phenomenon of a “state capture,” Kolozova stressed, adding that through excessive legal regulation, the executive power is allowed to over-control the media.

“The most important conclusion of this analysis is that in Macedonia there is excessive regulation of private broadcasting media. The state interferes too much in the process of program creation of private media, which negatively affects the editorial freedom, program quality and financial fitness of the media,” said AJM president Naser Selmani.

Selmani explained that the second conclusion from the analysis is that professional ethics of the media should be an object of self-regulation, and it should not be imposed by the state with laws and penalties.

He also spoke about the last draft version of the media law, which allows the government to have the monopoly over the truth. “If this article passes, in future the government will determine the truth in the media. It will have terrifying effects on freedom of speech and media freedom. It will also increase the existing self-censorship and crush the criticism in the media,” Selmani said.

Asked about the financing of MRT, Selmani said that 0.7 percent of the national budget for financing the MRT are insufficient funds for normal functioning of the public service.

According to him, cooperation between the civil sector and media organizations is very important. “The involvement of the civil sector in the debate on freedom of speech is a wind in our backs to solve existing problems in the media sector,” Selmani said.

SMCG requests for police actions in Drobnjak’s case to be examined

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PODGORICA, 22.11.2017 – Trade Union of Media of Montenegro addressed today to the Council for Civilian Control of Police Operations with a request to check application of police powers in the incident which happened in Pljevlja on October 11, 2017 when a vehicle of journalist Miroslav Drobnjak, a correspondent of Večernje novosti, was burned.

“That day, NN person set on fire Ford Focus vehicle, owned by Miroslav Drobnjak, a journalist from Pljevlja. By the time when Drobnjak was informed about the findings of an expert, which confirmed that the vehicle was deliberately set on fire, which happened on November 17, 2017, no one was interrogated. In addition, according to our data, no action, which could potentially lead to resolving the case, was taken by the police”, states the letter addresses to the Council.

We reminded that our colleague Drobjak expressed willingness to cooperate with the police. He made a statement, but for more than a month, no one considered anything from his report to the police.

SMCG has informed about the incident in Pljevlja and problems Drobnjak has encountered the Delegation of the European Union to Montenegro and the embassies of the United States of America and Federal Republic of Germany, as well as British Embassy.

8 meseci kasnije: Još se ne zna ko je pratio Blagojevića

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NIŠ, 22.11.2017. – Punih 8 meseci otkako je glavni urednik Južnih vesti Predrag Blagojević prijavio da ga je nepoznati muškarac ispred Suda, u centru Niša, snimao kamerom, policija nije uspela da otkrije identitet te osobe, a ni pored fotografija i video snimaka sigurnosnih kamera MUP ne uspeva da pronađe automobil iz koga je snimano.

Ko je vlasnik automobila “golf 5”, registracija NI 094 ŽČ, još se ne zna, niti je poznato ko je 21. marta ove godine sedeo za volanom i iz auta parkiranog preko puta Suda video kamerom snimao Blagojevića.

Policijska uprava u Nišu i MUP već mesecima odbijaju da odgovore na pitanja novinara o tome šta su tačno preduzeli kako bi otkrili ko je vlasnik automobila i ko je te večeri njime upravljao, ali i da prokomentarišu tvrdnje Osnovnog tužilaštva da su mesecima odbijali da odgovaraju i na njihove “urgencije”.

Od strane Policijske uprave u Nišu još uvek nam nije dostavljen izveštaj, ali OJT Niš neće odustati od zahteva Policijskoj upravi u Nišu da rade na otkrivanju identiteta lica koje je snimalo Predraga Blagojevića – odgovoreno je 6. juna iz Osnovnog tužilaštva.

Ipak, uz insistiranje brojnih novinarskih i medijskih organizacija, Policijska uprava je dva dana kasnije dostavila Tužilaštvu deo tražene dokumentacije, desetak dana kasnije dopunu, a do kraja septembra je u Osnovno tužilaštvo stigao samo još jedan dopis iz policije.

U navedenim izveštajima se ne ukazuje na identitet lica koje je snimalo Predraga Blagojevića dana – saopšteno je tada iz Tužilaštva.

U otkrivanju vlasnika automobila iz kog je sniman nisu pomogle ni fotografije koje je sam Blagojević sačinio, njegov opis automobila, ali ni brojne sigurnosne kamere koje pokrivaju raskrsnicu ispred zgrade Suda.

Snimala “Služba”?

Prema mišljenju nekoliko kredibilnih sagovornika Južnih vesti koji su nekada radili ili još rade u sektoru bezbednosti, a koji nisu želeli da se otkriva njihov identitet, realna je šansa da iza snimanja stoji neka od srpskih službi bezbednosti.

Nemoguće je da ni uz broj registracije i precizan opis automobila, pa još uz fotografije i video snimke kamera sa zgrade Suda i kamera koje pokrivaju centar grada, policija ne može da otkrije ko je vlasnik auta u roku od samo nekoliko minuta. Ako zaista takvih tablica nema u registru MUP, izvesno je da je reč o autu neke “Službe” – kaže penzionisani inspektor policije.

On dodaje da “veruje da je iste večeri taj automobil prebačen u neki drugi grad i da su mu promenjene tablice”.

Podsetimo, glavni i odgovorni urednik Južnih vesti Predrag Blagojević je prijavio policiji da ga je nepoznata osoba 21. marta uveče iz parkiranog automobila “Golf 5” u centru grada, ispred zgrade Suda, snimala video-kamerom, a da je, kada je on prišao automobilu, vozač naglo prekinuo snimanje, dao gas i otišao.

Blagojević je policiji predao i podatke o registarskim oznakama, kao i fotografije spornog automobila.

Tužilaštvo naložilo MUP prekršajni postupak protiv SNS nasilnika

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BEOGRAD, 22.11.2017. – Danasu stiglo obaveštenje Prvog osnovnog javnog tužilaštva o odbacivanju krivične prijave našeg lista protiv Srpske napredne stranke. Utvrđen identitet napadača na našu novinarku Lidiju Valtner: Slobodan Stojković, Filip Gojković i Marko Vukičević. “Ukoliko niste zadovoljni ovakvom našom odlukom, u mogućnosti ste da u roku od osam dana, od dana prijema ove obavesti, izjavite prigovor u smislu člana 51 ZKP Višem javnom tužilaštvu u Beogradu, a preko ovog tužilaštva”, piše u obaveštenju Tužilaštvu.

U obrazloženju krivične prijave koju je naš list podneo protiv SNS i N. N. lica, organizatora mitinga povodom inauguracije predsednika Srbije, navodi se da je novinarka lista Danas u okviru svojih novinarskih zaduženja prisustvovala i izveštavala sa javnog skupa koji je organizovan ispred Skupštine Srbije uoči polaganja zakletve Aleksandra Vučića, 31. maja 2017.

“Dok je razgovarala sa gospodinom kojeg su prethodno aktivisti SNS sklonili sa mesta, gde je stajao sa transparentom, jer su protumačili da je transparent protiv vlasti, videla je da dvojica ogromnih momaka u crnim majicama bukvalno dovlače dečka kojeg je prepoznala sa protesta Protiv diktature. U gužvi koja se stvorila oko njega, novinarka je pokušala da snimi nasilje i podigla telefon. Tada joj je prišao momak, za kojeg ona veruje da je aktivista SNS, koji joj je i ranije pretio da će joj oduzeti i baciti telefon, ako bude nastavila da fotografiše transparent već pomenutog gospodina i ceo skup, i uhvatio je za ruku pokušavajući da joj uzme telefon. Novinarka se otimala par sekundi, kada joj prišao jedan od one dvojice u crnim majicama, razdvojio ih i novinarku bukvalno odneo i odgurao do Pionirskog parka. Ispred nje je drugi vukao dečka iz protesta Protiv diktature, koji je sve vreme vikao: Gušite me, gušite me, a ja hoću da vam dam ličnu kartu”, piše u prekršajnoj prijavi Danasa.

Dodaje se da “pošto postoji osnovana sumnja da je bila ugrožena sigurnost novinarke dok je obavljala poslove od javnog značaja u oblasti informisanja, u vezi sa poslovima koje obavlja”, redakcija Danasa se obraća sa zahtevom za sprovođenjem istrage. Kao dokaz naš list je dostavio fotografije koje je Lidija Valtner snimila.

Istraga je trajala punih pet i po meseci, da bi u petak, prošle nedelje, Tužilaštvo saopštilo da je naša novinarka, kao i novinari i građani koji su prijavili nasilje, morala biti uklonjena sa mitinga SNS. Na osnovu ispitivanja svedoka, Tužilaštvo je utvrdilo da “su svi izjavili da bi došlo do mnogo većih incidenata i ‘linča’, samim tim i težeg povređivanja učesnika skupa, da ovi novinari, kao i neki građani nisu izvedeni iz mase, a da su se pritom lica koja su učestvovala u tome ponašala pristojno, da nikome nisu pretili, da su upućivali molbe da se prestane sa provokacijama i slično”.

The end of the Journalists Academy 2017 marked with the Handover Ceremony of Certificate

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JAHORINA, 21.11.2017. – By Handover Ceremony of Certificate the Journalists Academy 2017 “Reporting on the topic of gender-based violence” was brought to end.

Students of communication and journalism, from private and public universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27 of them, had the opportunity in the past three days to listen to lectures by media professionals, activists and representatives of public institutions on how to report accountable about gender-based violence, which forms of violence against women and girls are most prominent in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and how this social problem is addressed through the legal framework and international standards.

The Journalists Academy in Jahorina gathered participants from Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Ljubuski, Visegrad, Istocno Sarajevo, Mostar, Pale and Bugojno, and was part of the project “Disarming Violence – Media against Violence against Women” implemented by BH journalists with support from the UN Women office in BiH and the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

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Snimala “Služba”?