AGK condemns Prime Minister Albin Kurti's promotional and accusing rhetoric against media and journalists

The AGK's reaction comes after Kurti, during his speech at the Kosovo Assembly, has continued criticism of the media, citing also <x0-> the invisibility of money” and stressing that dezinformation, according to him, is influenced by external and internal factors.

“A disinformed citizen is not a free citizen, but he is manipulated and, as reports show, this manipulation is coming directly from our enemies, but unfortunately they are also finding their medicine within our country”, Kurti has declared.

In response, AGK is said to strongly condemn this inflammatory and accusation rhetoric of Kurti against the media and journalists in Kosovo, praising them <x0).argats of enemies”. Such a language is the continuation of Kurti's non-lined campaigns, his party and government, against journalists and the media with the aim of minimising independent and free reporting.

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AGK condemns Prime Minister Albin Kurti's promotional and accusing rhetoric against the media and journalists.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has used the Kosovo Parliament's speaker this Thursday to continue his attacks on the media and journalists, speaking among other things, for “the introduction of money invisibly”.

The prime minister in his address has said that “a disinformed citizen is not a free citizen, but he is manipulated and, as reports show, this manipulation is coming directly from our enemies, but unfortunately they are also finding their host inside our country”.

The AGK strongly condemns this promotional and accusation rhetoric of Kurti against the media and journalists in Kosovo, praising them <x0arms of enemies”. Such a language is the continuation of Kurti's non-lined campaigns, his party and government, against journalists and the media with the aim of minimising independent and free reporting.

The AGK invites the Government of Kosovo to engage in a transparent process for drafting the new KPM law with inclusion in discussions, to stop political pressure on public broadcasters RTK and immediately abandon organised media denigration campaigns and journalists.

Kurti's new attack on the media and journalists comes just days after the visit of a fact-finding mission of the Council of Europe's Security of Journalists that concluded that Kosovo has seen continuing decline in media freedom in recent years. /Periscope

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