Verbal threat to journalist, Jeta Xharra, Pristina, 03.07.2020

Translations: Pristina 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  Pristina
• Gender

  Female
• Victim(s) name

  Jeta Xharra

• Media outlet

• Type of media platform

  Online Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Facebook

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  03.07.2020
• City

  Prishtinë
• Perpetrator(s)

  Known (suspected)
• Attacked by

  Authorities - individuals
  
• Type of incident

  Other threats to journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  No

Senior official of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Gani Koci, has used insulting language against journalist Jeta Xharra.

Koci, through a post published on the social network Facebook, called Serbian skeptic tanks that should be closed with concrete, some personalities, including the BIRN’s journalist, Jeta Xharra.

“Time has come not to disinfect, but to close these Serbian septic tanks that remain in Kosovo. They are stinking a lot”, he wrote.

Association of Journalists of Kosovo (AJK), through a reaction, strongly condemned the language used by Gani Koci, and called on all political officials to stop attacks on journalists, in order for their work to serve public opinion and democratic development of society.

Such pressures are detrimental not only to the work of journalists, but also to democracy in the country. Journalists have the right to do their job freely, without fearing labels of this nature.