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                Date: 1998-10-11
                 
                 
                Zensur in YU: Telekombehörde dreht freie Radios ab
                
                 
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      Was die Belgrader Telekombe/hör/den am Freitag begonnen  
hatten, setzte sich in der Nacht auf Sonntag fort. Nach Radio  
Senta  (multi.-ethnisch, Vojvodina) wurde Radio Index  
(Belgrad) abgedreht. Die nächste Aktion wird wohl wieder  
gegen das legendäre Radio B-92  gerichtet sein, dessen  
Chefredakteur beim Kongress der Global Internet Liberty  
Campaign zu Budapest die letzte Keynote gesprochen hat.   
Die Internet Transmissions auf der  Website von B 92 können  
die Telekom/Exekutoren in Belgrad jedenfalls nicht abdrehen.  
Die steht auf sicherem Boden in Holland, ge/hosted vom  
einschlägig bekannten Provider  xs4all.nl 
 
Radio B92 Official Web Site --- http://www.opennet.org/
                   
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Date sent: 	Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:00:44 +0200 (CEST)  
Belgrade--October 11, 1998 On Friday, October 9, inspectors  
of the Yugoslav Telecommunications Ministry closed the  
multiethnic and multilingual independent Radio Senta in  
Vojvodina and seized a part of its transmission equipment.  
The same day, Radio Senta received a request from the  
Yugoslav Telecommunications Ministry to pay fee for the use  
of frequency. The ministry's note requesting payments said  
"the station's broadcasts caused no diffusion problems". The  
banning order and verbal instructions from the ministry  
headquarters however cited "exclusively technical" reasons  
for the station's closure.  
 
On Saturday evening, October 10, inspectors of the same  
ministry backed by police closed Belgrade's Radio Index and  
seized its transmission equipment. The banning order said  
that the station did not hold a broadcasting licence. Radio  
Index participated in the frequency allocation tender by the  
same ministry and has received information from the ministry  
that its documentation was now complete and its licence  
pending in the second round of the tender. The station  
furthermore holds a valid contract with the state Radio  
Television Serbia under which it has the right to use the RTS  
premises and transmitter. RTS breached this contract on  
Thursday, October 8, when it evicted Radio Index from the  
premises it had used for over 27 years and discontinued its  
transmission. Radio Index then relocated and started  
broadcasting on a frequency it had applied for in the current  
frequency tender. 
 
Radio BOOM 93 in Pozarevac and TV 5 in Uzice have  
received requests from the Yugoslav Telecommunications  
Ministry to pay fees for the use of their frequencies. ANEM  
has disputed the legality of this fee, introduced in May for  
those stations which are allocated temporary frequency  
licences in the current tender. Radio BOOM 93 and TV 5 are  
not only requested to pay for the use of frequencies they  
have not yet received licences for, but are requested to do so  
in "arrears", from June on.  
 
ANEM warns that the state is mounting a severest  
clampdown on the independent media in which the state  
disrespects even valid legal regulations. ANEM will continue  
to fight to protect its affiliates' rights. ANEM has called on its  
affiliates to carry on with their professional reporting in  
keeping with the law regardless of the pressure they are  
exposed to. 
  
relayed by 
-- Veran Matic, Editor in Chief	 tel: +381-11-322-9109 Radio  
B92, Belgrade, Yugoslavia		 fax: +381-11-322-4378 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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