AGK concerned following VVA attacks on Raj: Instead of reflection, they organise denigration campaign

The Association of Journalists has expressed much concern after what it has called coordinated attacks.

While he said that instead of rotating after the RSF's report, VV is organising denigration campaign.

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AGK deeply concerned with the denigration campaign to the organisation and board chairman Xhemajl Rexha

The association of Kosovo Journalists (AGK) expresses deep concern for the denigrating campaign and co-ordinated attacks on the organisation, and Board Chairman Xhemajl Rexha.

Instead of the necessary reflection after Kosovo's dramatic fall for 24 countries in the organisation's Global Press Freedom Index Reporters Without Borders (RSF), placing our country worse than all the countries in the region and along with states of heavy censorship and violence against journalists, notes the unacceptable tendency of LVV deputies to blame AGK and its leader for this reality.

Rexha, a 20-year-old journalist with high professional journalism and integrity, has been at the forefront of efforts to protect journalists and empower media and expression freedom in Kosovo.

Foreignly elected MP Arbeta Hyseni Kryeziu has been laughing down on Raja, while other deputies elected as Valon Ramadani and Arjeta Feyza have been targeting the organisation.

The AGK invites Vetevendosje deputies to ban attacks on journalists and representatives of independent organisations and to seriously address the alarming state of media freedom in Kosovo. Freedom of expression and protection of journalists are not issues of political preferences, but fundamental values of a functional democracy.

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