Country | BH |
Name and Surname | [:ba]Group of journalists[:] |
Gender | Group [:ba]Dnevni avaz[:] |
Date | 25/01/2016 |
City / Location | [:ba]Sarajevo[:] |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
By whom | By public officials by policeman |
Name of the perpetrator | [:ba]The State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA)[:] |
Type of media | print online |
Media name | [:ba]Daily news paper Dnevni avaz [:] |
Source | [:ba]Mirela Kukan, a journalist from Dnevni avaz[:] |
Article and legislation violated (nationally) | [:ba]Criminal code FBiH Article 185, Law on Criminal Procedure Article FBiH 231[:] |
Article of the European Convention of Human Rights that was violated | [:ba]Artical 10,Artical 14[:] |
Public prosecutor | Dismissed charges |
Public prosecutor | [:ba]The prosecutor's office and the Agency SIPA denied decline in official premises ( newsroom of Dnevni avaz) [:] |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is acquitted |
Perpatrator is acquitted.Description: | [ |
Judiciary status | [:ba]on going [:] |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | [:ba]BHJA and FMHL reacted by press release; send requests to SIPA and the Prosecutor's Office to suspend the trial. Both institutions have denied that they did not search of the media newroom - they hoped the place ( flat) of media owner Fahrudin Radoncic, who were imprisoned and in this space. There was no public apology medium for infringement of media and journalists.[:] |
Were authorities informed? | Yes - Police Yes - Public |
The Management Board of BH issued a press release in order to decline policemen SIPA s with rifles and fully armed to the premises of Dnevni Avaz.