“Take Ademi to Home”, Association reacts to Batatina's insults to journalist

The Kosovo Sport Journalists' Association reacts to the offensive opinion of the Lipi Football Club coach Tahir Batatina, to Kosovo journalists Emmanuel Syla and Maki Bajrami on the 19 July 2020 Sport Show.

As a USGSK board, we consider that insults against journalists are unacceptable and as such condemned, affecting their identity and rights.

So we ask the coach in question, but also the entire sports community to refrain from offensive language. Journalists are those who, even under severe pandemic conditions, are trying to do their professional work. We do not side with anyone in interest relations, neither clubs nor the Kosovo Football Federation in this case”, says the Sport Journalists' Association's response to Kosovo.

Like clubs, journalists should have the right to do their job, always adhering to the ethical and professional journalistic code.