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                Date: 1999-03-24
                 
                 
                Belgrad: Raid auf Radio B92, Chefred eingesperrt
                
                 
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      Das Belgrader Regime nützt die Vorkriegslage, um einen  
Schlag gegen die Opposition zu führen & die unabhängige  
Radiostation B-92 endgültig zum Verstummen zu bringen. In  
der Nacht auf heute [2:50 MEZ] wurde der Sender von der  
Polizei geschlossen, Chefredakteur Veran Matic wurde  
eingesperrt. 
 
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Drazen Pantic, founder and former director of OpenNet, Radio  
B92's Internet department, recounts tonite's events as of 2:50  
am, local time in Belgrade: 
 
"Tonight at 2:50a.m. two technicians from the Federal  
Ministry for Telecommunications accompanied by 10  
policemen entered the premises of B-92 and ordered the  
immediate closing of the radio.  Police ordered all journalists  
to step back from their computers and mobile phones. When  
Veran Matic, editor in chief, entered the radio, police took  
him into custody without any explanation.  He has not  
returned since." 
 
"The official explanation is that Radio B92 has overpowered  
its transmission." 
 
Radio B92 in Belgrade has been the most important voice of  
independent media in Serbia throughout the wars in the  
former Yugoslavia, and also coordinates the Association of  
Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), an association of 33  
radio and18 television stations in Yugoslavia. Since its  
founding in 1989 as Serbia#185#s first independent station,  
B92 has developed its own Internet center (OpenNet); a book  
and magazine publishing department; a cultural center, an  
award-winning film and video department; and a CD label  
which features the music of young Yugoslav artists. 
 
Veran Matic founded Radio B92, Serbia's first independent  
station, in May 1989. The station was subsequently banned  
several times, but has managed to continue broadcasting  
throughout the nine years of its existence. Radio B92  
broadcasts a mix of new, information programs, call-in  
shows, entertainment and music 24 hours a day. Its news  
programs form the core of the ANEM Radio Network's  
programming, which provides independent news to listeners  
in upwards of 70 per cent of Yugoslavia. In addition to serving  
as B92's editor-in-chief, Matic also chairs ANEM, and is  
executive director of the International Committee for the  
Protection of Independent Media in Yugoslavia, FREE 2000. 
 
For more information on the recent crackdowns on  
independent media in Serbia, including in Kosovo: 
 
http://www.opennet.org/index.html
                   
 
 
 
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 1999-03-24 
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