Hundreds of people, including many journalists, gathered Thursday night in Zagreb, denouncing political dismissals and the elimination of many programs of public broadcasting (HRT), the cultural programs of the third string.
The article is about the corruption in the process of public financing work of media. Mrs. Andrea Zlatar Violić, former minister of Culture, allocated to the cultural magazine Zarez cca. 160 000 Euro. But Zlatar was one of the magazine owners and the magazine was after the judicial process required to pay back this amount.
Hundreds of artists, professors and ordinary citizens have signed a petition to the prime-minister Boyko Borisov with an appeal to demand the resignation of the minister of culture Vezhdi Rashidov. "The freedom of speech is not an abstraction but a fundamental human right. We have been witnessing acts of outright pressure by minister Vezhdi Rashidov towards a respected journalist from the Bulgarian National Television as well as critics of Rashidov who were fired from the National art gallery in a questionable manner, after their critical statements in a TV show. We consider such actions as highly unacceptable in an European and a democratic country, therefore we cannot stay indifferent...", the petition writes.
Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov demonstrated blatant attempt of political pressure on journalist of public broadcaster BNT. In letter to the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), the minister expresses his discontent towards the criticism of experts in the TV programme of the journalist Georgi Angelov, addressing Angelov with the words: "I advise him not to constantly ironize the state, which pays his salary too". Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria (AEJ) insists on immediate resignation of Vezhdi Rashidov as a minister of culture.
Curated by the "Foreign affairs" desk of Radio Popolare, the second episode of the second year of the ECPMF project of which Radio Popolare is media partner. Danilo Elia, former OBC correspondent, analyzes the critical situation of press freedom in Ukraine.
TGS, DİSK Press Labor and TGC have reacted against arrest of Erol Önderoğlu, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Ahmet Nesin who were among the Özgür Gündem daily’s Editors-in-Chief on Watch, acting in solidarity with Özgür Gündem daily.
Rights and press organizations and the EU have reacted against the arrest of the TİHV Chair Korur Fincancı, RSF Turkey Representative and Bianet rapporteur Önderoğlu and journalist Nesin.
Journalist Can Dündar has taken over the duty of Editor-in-Chief to act in solidarity with the daily Özgür Gündem, as a means to protest against the arrest of Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Turkey Representative and Bianet freedom of expression rapporteur Erol Önderoğlu and journalist Ahmet Nesin.
