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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:11:49 +0100
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globe_l: repression des medias en Serbie
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BELGRADE, - Le regime du president yougoslave Slobodan
Milosevic a accentue sa campagne contre les medias d'opposition,
fermant quatre radios et televisions en une semaine et menaÁant
d'en fermer plus de 200 autres.
Le ministre yougoslave des Telecommunications, Ivan Markovic, a
donne mardi jusqu'au 31 mars a 168 radios et 67 chaines de television,
qui travaillent sans licence, pour se mettre en regle avec la loi.
Ces radios et chainent de television "seront privees de leurs emetteurs",
si d'ici a cette date elles ne s'acquittent pas de leurs dettes envers l'Etat,
dont le montant s'eleve a 120 millions de dinars (12 millions d'euros),
a averti le ministre.
S'exprimant mardi au cours d'une conference de presse,
le ministre Markovic a accuse les medias independants d'etre des
"mercenaires, sans moral et sans honneur, que l'on reconnait aux
mensonges qu'ils propagent tous les jours".
Pour eviter sa fermeture, la principale chaine de radio-television de Belgrade,
Studio B, a paye 11 millions de dinars (1,1 million d'euros) que lui reclamait
le pouvoir a titre de redevance pour l'utilisation de frequences d'emission.
Studio B a ete fondee par la municipalite de Belgrade, dominee actuellement
par le Mouvement serbe du renouveau (SPO), de Vuk Draskovic, la bete
noire de M. Milosevic.
"La municipalite a paye pour eviter des conflits entre ceux qui veulent
fermer la chaine et ceux qui veulent la defendre" a declare a l'AFP
le redacteur en chef de Studio B, Dragan Kojadinovic, qui a estime que sa
station n'avait, en realite, pas de dettes.
Les leaders de l'opposition serbe avaient appele lundi les habitants
de Belgrade a manifester en cas de fermeture de la television Studio B,
que le pouvoir traite regulierement de "traitre" a la patrie et de "valet" de l'OTAN.
Le regime de M. Milosevic parle en ces termes de tous les medias
independants et de tous ceux qui reclament son depart depuis la perte
du Kosovo et la fin des bombardements de l'OTAN, en juin 1999.
La semaine derniere, cinq inconnus en tenue de camouflage de la police,
ont fait irruption dans les locaux d'un transmetteur de Studio B a Belgrade,
emportant des pieces vitales et blessant deux employes.
Le regime a accentue sa campagne en mars non seulement contre
les medias electroniques, mais aussi contre la presse ecrite, qui a ete
condamnee a payer de fortes amendes, en vertu de la loi sur l'Information,
en vigueur depuis octobre 1998.
Le pouvoir "semble vouloir fermer toutes les lumieres et plonger la Serbie
dans le noir", ecrivait lundi l'influent quotidien independant Danas,
commentant la fermeture la veille d'une chaine de television a Pozega
et les manifestations de protestation qui ont suivi dans cette petite ville
a 100 km au sud-ouest de Belgrade.
L'opposition estime que le regime cherche a etouffer les medias en vue
d'elections. Le renouvellement des conseils municipaux et du parlement
yougoslave devrait avoir lieu en novembre, selon le calendrier electoral.
L'opposition serbe reclame, sans grand espoir, la convocation d'elections
anticipees a tous les niveaux.
"Les autorites ont opte pour la repression. Elles veulent etouffer l'opposition
et les medias parce qu'elles ont peur de la verite", a estime Vuk Obradovic,
president du Parti de la sociale democratie (SD)
14 mars (AFP)
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City Assembly pays Studio B licence fees
BELGRADE, - The Belgrade City Assembly, which is the proprietor of
Radio Television Studio B, today paid the Yugoslav Ministry of
Telecommunications almost half a million Deutschmarks in fees for "temporary
frequency use", the station's director, Dragan Kojadinovic, said today.
Kojadinovic quoted Mayor Vojislav Mihailovic as saying that the Assembly had
paid the disputed fees in order to keep police and ministry inspectors out of
Studio B's premises and to avoid conflict between state bodies and the
defenders of the city television. He added that he had been invited to and
accepted a meeting with Yugoslav Telecommunications Minister Ivan Markovic
tomorrow.
Markovic today said that media in Yugoslavia may work only with a licence and
only within the law. The minister told a press conference that 168 radio and
67 television stations were operating without licences and that they owed
more than 120 million dinars in fees. Markovic also said that the ministry
would clean up all debts by the end of March and would have support from
police in doing so.
Yugoslav Army evicts Nis television
NIS,
- The Yugoslav Army yesterday gave Nis broadcaster TV5 notice to
quit premises rented from the local army headquarters by April 25. TV5
reported last night that the army had justified breaking the lease on its
premises by saying that the Ministry of Defence wanted to turn an
unprofitable building into apartments. Editor-in-Chief Slavica Nikolic-Corbic
described the action as the continuation of pressure by the authorities on
media not under their control.
Independent media banned from Parliament meeting
BELGRADE, - Journalists from several independent and private media
organisations were today refused entry to the Serbian Parliament's
Administrative Committee meeting, despite having been earlier informed of the
session. Parliament security guards turned away representatives of Radio B2
92, Beta news agency and the dailies Blic and Danas. The journalists were
given no explanation. Beta reports unofficial sources as saying that the
Serbian Radical Party had insisted that independent journalists be banned.
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Media repression condemned
BELGRADE,
- The secretary-general of the International Journalists'
Federation, Aidan White, today accused the authorities in Serbia of applying
"unbearable pressure" to media not under their control, describing this as a
systematic attack "dressed in bureaucratic and allegedly legal procedures".
In an interview for the Belgrade Media Centre, White, who was last week
refused a visa by Yugoslav authorities, condemned the closing of local radio
stations and newspapers, the jamming of Studio B Television and the brutal
implementation of the Public Information Act.
Yugoslav Left behind media repression: Korac
BELGRADE,
- The major part of the campaign against the independent
media in Serbia was being organised within the leadership of the Yugoslav
United Left, the president of the Social-Democratic Union, Zarko Korac, said
today. The campaign was being led by the ministers for information and
telecommunications. According to Korac the opposition will respond
aggressively and directly to attacks on the media, and the next joint
opposition meeting in Novi Sad would focus on the defence of independent
media.
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