Missing journalist Marjan Melonasi (B92, UNS, Kossev, Vesti)
"I know that Marjan was being threatened for socializing with Serbs. This is what he told me; however, there may have been other things."
"I know that Marjan was being threatened for socializing with Serbs. This is what he told me; however, there may have been other things."
Who was Marjan Melonashi? A 179 cm-high young man, with brown hair and green eyes. English language student at the University of Pristina, a dreamer, an in loved twenty-four-year-old, with plans for marriage. A journalist, a reporter of Radio Kosovo Serbian desk, Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) writes on its website.
It was September 9, 2000. At 2 pm, he completed his half-hour show, left the studio in the city center and asked for a ride from an orange taxi parked across the radio building. This was the last information about him.
It has been close to twenty years since the killings, kidnappings and disappearances of 14 Serbian and Albanian journalists in Kosovo.
These crimes happened between 1998 and 200, and no one has been brought to justice, the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated on its website.
UNMIK and EULEX missions with a large number of prosecutors failed to solve murders and abductions of journalists, and local prosecutors are expected now to redeem what the international ones failed to do.
And this should be done with only two prosecutors, says Drita Hajdari, a war crimes prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor Office of Kosovo, in an interview for the Dossier on kidnapped and murdered journalists and media workers.
Assembly of Serbia adopted a proposal from Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNNS) to appoint Zivojin Rakocevic as a member of Anti-Corruption Agency Board, Serbian media reported.
With this decision, a place representing the journalists’ associations in the Board has been filled after more than five years.
The media recalled, UNS and NUNS proposed Zivojic Rakocevic to be a Board member for the third time in July last year, while the first attempt was made in August 2015.
Jan Braathu, Head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo, interviewed by the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS).
Although, according to the Constitution of Kosovo, Serbian and Albanian are official languages, and on Thursday in the Kosovo Parliament, there was no translation into Serbian, just right after the Serbian MPs have left the session.
Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Society of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) strongly condemn this act and demand to cease the discrimination of all citizens of Kosovo, as well as journalists, whose mother tongue is Serbian.
Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) in the strongest terms condemned “continuation of mistreatment of journalists and media professionals in Kosovo and Metohija by the Kosovo police,” KoSSev portal reported.
The reaction came after the police in Pec arrested, interrogated and after almost 5 hours released 3 RTS crew members and 5 lawyers from the Free Legal Aid Office.
Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) condemned violence of the Kosovo special police members against journalists who were reporting on events in Mitrovica North, KIM Radio reported.
ROSU members attacked 15 Serbian media journalists who were following events in the north of Kosovo, despite journalists clearly identifying themselves by showing press IDs and shouting in Albanian they are journalists.
"Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS) has done great job in investigations of murders and abductions of the journalists on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija"
Chairman of the Commission for Investigating Murder of Journalists Veran Matic had announced the possibility of establishing this commission on Kosovo, with the aim of resolving the killings and abductions of 14 journalists and media workers in osovo and Metohija (KiM) from 1998 until 2005.