an hour agoDer Standard writes about Kurti Government pressure on media: You're threatening them with closure.
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The renowned Austrian newspaper '%der Standard) has written about the threats Kurti Government is making to the media in Kosovo, citing their closure threats. ) StandardDoer has mentioned the last case in which journalists from Insider were interviewed by police after a day earlier by Health Minister Arben Vitita at a conference on [...]
Standard filer has mentioned the last case in which journalists from Insider were interviewed by police, since the previous day, Health Minister Arben Vitita, at a news conference had invited the prosecution to deal with what the media had published.
This paper has also cited privatisation of its building. h - RTPA, now RTK, where it has been said that the Kosovo Privatisation Agency (AKP), can privatise this object and that workers have warned protests against the government if that happens.
We seek from the Kosovo Assembly to start procedures for passing the RTK Law as soon as possible. We propose to the Parliament that the object where Kosovo Radio is located is passed over. RTK and with the Government to help RTK with the additional budget for its renovation of”, the SPARTK's response was said.
Adding media pressure from Kurti Government:
The Austrian daily has done a chronology of pressure from Vetevendosje's political subject, where it says that this party has been putting pressure on RTK since last December, while the peak has been reached in the election campaign that led to the February 14th elections, cementing Kurti and VVA's power by bringing a change to the political elite.
Der Standard, writes about the government's clash with other media in Kosovo.
Citing newspaper “Insander” and the charges in its direction after having published “concidential documents”, Dyer Standard) says these documents should be accessible to journalists under Kosovo law. Also highlighted is the fact that Health Minister Arben Vitita has invited the prosecution to investigate media that have published such documents.
This paper has also written about former people's campaign, Sami Kurtesh, who is now VVA representative at the Central Election Commission. He has made serious accusations against the media, writing that most media managements in Kosovo are carrying out <x0 media crimes” because the vast majority of the media are “the product of institutional organised crime” by governments over the past 20 years.
It should be noted that after the announcements of Minister Vitita, in the offices of the Insander portal, Saturday afternoon, police went to the Metro newspaper.
Order forces there requested Parim Olluri, director of the portal, who published a research that said the Health Minister, Arben Vitita, did not in time sign the contract allowing the Pfizer vaccine to be supplied.
Oluri said she was asked for the source of the news, but this did not give by being summoned to the Law for the Protection of Journalists' Resources.
The same was then invited for an interview with the police, but that the process was cancelled following public pressure.
