Macédoine (ARYM) : plus d’une centaine de journalistes mis sur écoute illégalement

Le gouvernement macédonien est accusé par le chef de l’opposition d’avoir illégalement mis sur écoute les téléphones de plus de 20.000 citoyens, dont plus de 100 journalistes. La Fédération européenne des journalistes (FEJ) ainsi que ses membres macédoniens- le syndicat des journalistes macédoniens et travailleurs des médias (SSNM) et l’Association des journalistes de Macédoine (ZNM) – ont exprimé leur grave préoccupation au sujet de nouvelles allégations de surveillance de masse non autorisée de journalistes et des citoyens en Macédoine. Zoran Zaev, chef du parti d’opposition Union sociale-démocrate de Macédoine (SDSM, centre-gauche), a publié aujourd’hui (25/02/2015) des informations détaillées sur les…

Macédoine: Tomislav Kezarovski a été emprisonné

Mise à jour (16/11/2015): le journaliste macédonien Tomislav Kezarovski a été emprisonné, ce vendredi soir. La Fédération européenne des journalistes (FEJ) a exprimé aujourd’hui (15/01/2015) sa profonde préoccupation après la condamnation du journaliste macédonien Tomislav Kezarovski à deux ans de prison par la Cour d’appel de Skopje. Kezarovksi, un journaliste d’investigation qui a travaillé pour le quotidien Nova Makedonija, a été placé en détention puis en résidence surveillée depuis le 28 mai 2013 pour un article qu’il a écrit en 2008 pour le magazine Reporter 92  dans lequel il aurait révélé l’identité d’un témoin protégé dans une affaire d’assassinat. La…

Media Integrity Matters

EU & Public service values in the Western Balkans media

On 18/11/2014, a conference entitled “Media Integrity Matters – Reclaiming public service values in the Western Balkans media: How should the European Union Respond ?” has been organized in Brussels by MEP Tanja Fajon. The event was a follow-up to the publication of the book “Media integrity matters” in June 2014, comprising the research conducted in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia. The study aims at addressing the obstacles to a democratic development of media systems in the countries of South East Europe/Western Balkans by pointing out corrupt relations and practices in media policy, media ownership and financing,…

EFJ President meeting Tomislav Kezarovski

Macedonia: where investigative journalism leads directly to jail

It is essential that international organizations not only have press freedom as key issues, but also pursues effectively the abuses that are taking place and put pressure on the authorities to correct those attacks on press freedom, writes Mogens Blicher Bjerregaard, President of the Danish Union of Journalists and EFJ President. By Mogens Blicher Bjerrregård I’m just back from Macedonia where I had the opportunity to visit a journalist whose life is in ruins because he does not want to disclose his sources. The European Federation of Journalists sent a letter to the Macedonian Ambassador to the European Union. Similar…

Skopje Media Conference Publishes Conclusions

Journalists unions from across the former Soviet Union and South East Europe gathered to debate the status of journalism, union organising and violations and safety of journalists rights across the region. The meeting was the third joint IFJ / EFJ meeting in the region to build greater collaboration and support for journalists unions across Europe. Discussions focused on labour rights, new forms of organising and recruitment, union campaigning, legal defense and new digital tools. The meeting started by recalling the many hundreds of journalists that have suffered violence and persecution for their work since the 2013 conference in Kiev and…

EFJ Calls for All Charges Against Journalist Tomislav Kezarovski to be Dropped

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has called for authorities in Macedonia to drop all charges against the journalist Tomislav Kezarovski – who has now been held under house arrest for over a year. In 2013, Kezarovski was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison by a tribunal in Skopje for writing investigative articles for the magazine Reporter 92. He is currently under house arrest, unemployed and living in very difficult conditions. The EFJ has sent a letter to Andrej Lepavcov, the Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union, calling for Macedonian authorities to bring an end to all…