News in English     | 16.07.2023. 22:31 |

BH Journalists Assoc. demands investigation into the theft of journalists' professional equipment

FENA Press release, Photo: BH Journalists Association

SARAJEVO, July 16 (FENA) - The Board of Directors of the BH Journalists Association and the Helpline for Journalists gave their full support to the journalist Žana Karić-Gauk and the editor-in-chief of the Žurnal portal Eldin Karić, and demand from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sarajevo Canton an urgent and professional investigation into the intrusion into the apartment of two journalists and the alienation of their work equipment.

The burglary happened on Friday when these two journalists were celebrating the fourteenth anniversary of the Žurnal portal. Unknown burglars rummaged through things in the apartment and on that occasion took two laptops that journalist Žana Gauk – Karić and editor Eldin Karić use for their daily work.

The Steering Board of BH Journalists assesses this incident as a targeted attempt to intimidate journalists and editors of the Žurnal portal, in order to give up investigative journalism and publishing stories about cases of crime and corruption, whose actors are the biggest political and state officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This is also about prolonged violence against journalists, whose actors do not limit the violence only to the workspaces of the Žurnal portal or journalistic teams on a work assignment, but also attack private property, in order to "keep" journalists in constant fear and divert their work to deal with themselves, and not investigative journalism centered on the actions and decisions of political officials.

 

(FENA) S. R.

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