The broadcast covers the protests of journalists and the general public, organised under the slogan "Podrži RTV" (support RTV) in the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina. They protested the laying off of 14 editors at the public broadcaster RTV Vojvodina, which they saw as politically motivated. The lay-offs happened immediatelly after the country-wide and povincial elections, both of which were won by the SNP party of the serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vučić.
Probe has been launched into other five on-watch Editor-in-Chiefs supporting the Özgür Gündem daily. Ertuğrul Mavioğlu, Faruk Eren, Ayşe Düzkan who have been subjected to the probe, and the daily’s Managing Editor İnan Kızılkaya testified today.
All editors of information of the public broadcasting in Vojvodina (RTV) were removed from their positions without explanation on Wednesday 18th May, after the resignation of the general manager and of the program director. They will all be replaced by "faithful" journalists who held these positions in the 1990s.
According to the report by the Free Journalists Association, eight journalists have been detained, four arrested, and four others subjected to torture in the past 15 days.
To get a good job at the Croatian Radio-Television (HRT), it is better to take the membership card of the Croatian Society of Journalists and publicists (HniP), the conservative press association that never hides its pro-ustaša sympathies.
Murat Şahin, who assaulted Can Dündar with a gun on May 6th, has been arrested with charges of “opposing the Law on armed weapons and knives and armed threat”.
Dutch journalist Ebru Umar detained over insulting the President has returned to Holland after the international travel ban imposed on her has been lifted.
Dutch journalist Ebru Umar detained over insulting the President has returned to Holland after the international travel ban imposed on her has been lifted.
