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Show the courage and award the courageous
Non-governmental organizations from Bosnia & Herzegovina started an initiative regarding Show the Courage and Award the Courageous: Six-April Award for the team of FTV magazine ’60 Minuta’. This is an appeal to the authorities and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding recent happenings relating to physical and verbal attacks on journalists of political TV magazine ’60 Minuta’.
Death threats to journalists in B&H
The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute, is deeply concerned over recent death threats made against journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Attacks on freedom of speech in Serbia
In an official statement, the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) condemns a recent attack on the Pescanik internet site and the demolition of Pescanik’s radio programme author Svetlana Lukic’s car in a parking lot near the radio building.
Most B&H citizens complain about corruption
According to the Transparency International BiH Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre 2008 annual report, the dramatic level of corruption in BiH has a huge influence on the flagrant breach of fundamental human rights in the country and on the drastic relativization of basic freedoms.
Lajcak to leave Bosnia OHR post
Bosnia’s top international envoy, Miroslav Lajcak, is leaving his post in Bosnia in the middle of a political deadlock to take up the job of Slovakian Foreign Minister, sending the international community into urgent consultations to identify a possible replacement.