Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 22:25:24 GMT -6
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama thinks that the Reporters Without Borders report, which says that journalists face political attacks and police violence, "is a lie", while he described the report as "a mockery of freedom of expression". In a series of statuses on the Twitter social network, Rama says that in Albania "there are no media intimidated and no journalists hindered in their freedom." "Journalists victims of police violence in Albania? What a lie! Journalists critical of the government face political attacks? What a fantasy! Ethical self-regulation in the Albanian media? What a mockery! Only the title is missing: Complaint about the lack of freedom because we don't know what to do with freedom!", declared Rama.
In power since 2013, Rama has been Brazil Telegram Number Data criticized by human rights organizations for installing a centralized information control system while his press office produces "news" that is then broadcast on television as "independent reporting". ". The organization Reporters Without Borders was founded in 1985 in France with the aim of protecting freedom of expression and information. On Tuesday, it published the World Press Freedom Index, in which different countries of the world are ranked according to the state of media freedom. One of the most critical reports published by this organization on Albania to date, it states that "journalists critical of the government face regular political attacks aimed at discretizing them, while they have trouble accessing public information, which is endangered by further restrictions from the centralization of government communications recently undertaken.
The report also notes that the physical safety of journalists is threatened by organized crime, the state's failure to protect them, and even police violence. The report clearly refers to the cases of December 2020, when youth protests against the police, caused by the killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha by a police officer, were accompanied by the detention and violence of journalists who were reporting on violent clashes in the streets of Tirana . While in July 2021, journalists who were reporting on a police operation were assaulted by the police after the latter failed to stop a suspected drug trafficker. In both cases, local and international media freedom organizations asked Rama to condemn the cases of violence, while the latter did not react.
In power since 2013, Rama has been Brazil Telegram Number Data criticized by human rights organizations for installing a centralized information control system while his press office produces "news" that is then broadcast on television as "independent reporting". ". The organization Reporters Without Borders was founded in 1985 in France with the aim of protecting freedom of expression and information. On Tuesday, it published the World Press Freedom Index, in which different countries of the world are ranked according to the state of media freedom. One of the most critical reports published by this organization on Albania to date, it states that "journalists critical of the government face regular political attacks aimed at discretizing them, while they have trouble accessing public information, which is endangered by further restrictions from the centralization of government communications recently undertaken.
The report also notes that the physical safety of journalists is threatened by organized crime, the state's failure to protect them, and even police violence. The report clearly refers to the cases of December 2020, when youth protests against the police, caused by the killing of 25-year-old Klodian Rasha by a police officer, were accompanied by the detention and violence of journalists who were reporting on violent clashes in the streets of Tirana . While in July 2021, journalists who were reporting on a police operation were assaulted by the police after the latter failed to stop a suspected drug trafficker. In both cases, local and international media freedom organizations asked Rama to condemn the cases of violence, while the latter did not react.