Impunity for crimes targeting journalists in Kosovo (B92, CoE, EFJ, UNS)
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.
OSCE urges action on journalists’ murders in Kosovo (B92, BIRN)
The OSCE wants renewed efforts to uncover the truth behind the kidnappings and murders of Serb and ethnic Albanian journalists connected to the 1999 war.
OSCE ambassador to Kosovo Jan Braathu said on Tuesday at the unveiling of a memorial plaque to two Serbian reporters who were kidnapped in 1999 and never found that the European organisation will support increased efforts to find the perpetrators of crimes against journalists in the country.
Seventh attempt of journalists to place memorial plaque – We are searching for them (Radio kontakt plus)
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) would today for the seventh time place a memorial plaque next to the Orahovac-Velika Hoca road, dedicated to the missing Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, Radio kontakt plus reported.
"Journalists in Kosovo are working in very difficult conditions" (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2)
The media in Kosovo are faced with politicization, non-implementation of laws by institutions and intimidation of journalists, with an increase in self-censorship, according to the association of journalists.
"Great UNS job investigating Kosovo murders of journalists" (B92, UNS)
"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.
Matic: Soon the investigation of the fate of missing and killed journalists in Kosovo (Insajder, KIM radio, Kossev)
Director of the B92 Fund and the President of the Commission for the Investigation of Journalist Murdered in Serbia, Veran Matic, said that in the following months, as a consultant to the OSCE mission in Pristina, he would work on a proposal for the formation of a Commission to deal with the cases of 14 killed and missing journalists in Kosovo in the period from 1998 to 2005, reports the Belgrade based portal Insajder.
For the sixth time, the memorial plaque for the missing journalists near Orahovac demolished (Serbian media)
A memorial plaque set in memory of the kidnappings of Radio Pristina's journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic was demolished and removed the sixth time, and around the place was found a large amount of bones, most likely of animal origin, report Serbian media.
UNS: Head of the US Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission, Shaun Byrnes - I searched for Perenic and Slavuj in vain
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) announced on its website in Serbian, Albanian and English a conversation with Shaun Byrnes, former head of the US diplomatic mission in Kosovo.