Country | KO |
Name and Surname | Taulant Osmani |
Gender | Male |
Date | 22/02/2018 |
City / Location | Pristina |
Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
By whom | Security |
Type of media | online |
Media name | Kallxo.com |
Source | Media reports |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | The Association of Journalists of Kosovo condemns the violent remove of a journalist from Kosovo’s Assembly on Thursday by a security individual. The AJK considers that this event is a direct obstacle of work of media and condemns the violent act against the journalist, despite that there was a clarification among them about the expired accreditation. No one has the right to act with violence against media workers and in particular in situations when the reporting has direct interests for the public of our country. |
Were authorities informed? | No |
A Kosovo’s Assembly security guard forcibly removed a journalist from the building claiming that the journalist had an expired accreditation. The journalist told the security guard that no one from media has yet received 2018 accreditations from the Assembly.