Berisha: Kurti government is trying to bring the media under control

Democratic Party of Kosovo MP Hisen Berisha's decision by the Ministry of Trade and Industry for suspending Klan Kosova's business certificate has described it as a tendency to control the entire intelligence system in Kosovo.

Berisha, on the “show, diaryri” in Tve1, stressed that this decision on the part of the Government of Kosovo has come because the media in Kosovo are the strongest opposition to this government.

The problem is to confront the government with the media, that actually the strongest opposition now is the media. The media are one of the mechanisms that control democracy in this country, so these are a mechanism that controls the way if they have that independent education, if they're not financed. So now the question is, I believe that very soon this will start seeing all these media scream at the government's address improperly means, that they don't support policymaking and that's a phenomenon of totalitarian regimes. These guys have the propaganda tool, then they start paraning it is the property of dictators, either of the fascist dictatorial regimes that history has known so far, and when they wipe out the paranoos then they begin to invent imaginary enemies”, Berisha said.

MP The PDK said the Kurti government first started the political spectrum to continue with the media and the United States of America.

So I'm saying that there's a tendency to control it here, to bring the entire information system into control in Kosovo, as well as the many other boards of state, with agencies, with enormous economic development, and the creation of imaginary enemies. It started with the political spectrum, passed it on to the media, called them shameful epithets comparing they are in Serbia's service, then made America” enemies, he said.

While protests have been held today in Pristina for support of the Klan Kosovo media, following the suspension of the business certificate by the Ministry of Industry, Undertaking and Trade.

Protest with the motto “Democracy dies in the dark” is supported by the Association of Kosovo Journalists and Civil Society.

Days earlier, MINT has dismissed Klan Kosovo's complaint about the abolition of the suspension of the public television business certificate, while by June it has filed criminal charges against this medium.

Criminal speculation has been raised over claims that in the business certificate, Kosovo is presented as part of Serbia, namely, in the change of owners, figures Peja Peja and Gjakova Serbia.

On the other hand, the Kosovar Agency for Registering Business (ARBK) canceled Klan Kosovo's business certificate, but on 21 June, it abolished the decision, where one day later, The ARBK annulled the June 21st decision.

Following that decision, Klan Kosova has reacted by saying that he will not accept such an authoritarian approach by state institutions under any circumstances, has also indicated that the case will be sent to court.