TI BiH Strongly Condemns Interrogation of Journalists

19 July 2013

Namely, according to the media in BiH, a journalist and an editor of the portal ‘’Istinito’’ and magazine ’’Respekt’’, Željko Raljić was taken for interrogation because of publishing news about posters plastered around Banja Luka, which were criticizing the authorities in the RS.

Journalists have every right to protect their sources of information, and at the same time plastering of posters and expressing opinion on the authorities is not a criminal offence so the Ministry of Interior is not authorized to persecute these perpetrators. It is clear that in this way the Ministry of Interior puts itself openly in protection of the persons criticized by the posters and violates the fundamental human rights, openly putting pressure on the media.

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