Separatists are getting bolder: The film crew of the Serbian state channel is not allowed into Kosovo
The Kosovo “police” have not allowed the film crew of the Serbian state television channel RTS to enter the region for the second day.
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and its branch, the Society of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija, have already protested about this.
As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the RTS film crew is blocked at the Yarinye administrative crossing, where they arrived yesterday at noon. Local “police officers” told journalists that they should wait for the appropriate permission from the separatist “Ministry of Internal Affairs.”
The editor of the “Right to Sutra” program, Svetlana Vukmirovich, contacted the ONS, pointing out that “freedom of movement and freedom of speech are fundamental human rights that should not be limited by administrative measures.”
Svetlana Vukmirovich visiting the Serbian editorial office of Sputnik radio.
“For more than two years, Kosovo police have not allowed journalist Svetlana Vukmirovich to report, regularly detaining her at crossings,” said the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS), whose note was joined by its regional branch, the Society of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija.
The ONS said it would inform international organizations and professional journalistic associations about this "attack on media freedom" and noted that this was the third time in three days that Kosovo authorities had obstructed the press.
RTS operates in Kosovo.
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Now the editors are aware.