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From notes@igc.org Tue Aug 13 17:44:42 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:44:49 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13918; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 14:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: 13 Aug 1996 13:04:59 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: Ivo Skoric Subject: Press Freedoms To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199608131705.KAA09309@igc3.igc.apc.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 28 From: "Ivo Skoric" Two arguably most important independent media in Croatia face imminent danger this fall. On September 25 a trial resumes against editors of Split's satirical weekly Feral Tribune for slandering His Presidential Highness of Franjo Tudjman, and beginning December the temporary assigned frequency permit for Radio 101, the radio that was some times ago responsible for helping Tudjman get elected in the first place (Wall Street Journal, front page, July 25, 1996), is about to expire and, likely, not going to be extended. Anticipating this events and in response to this years crackdown on freedom in the press in Croatia, Neither East Nor West, based in New York, will call upon several freedom of speech, freedom of the press and human rights organizations, as well as likeminded people, to show up for demonstrations in frint of the Croatian consulate in New York city, preliminary scheduled for Friday, September 20. ivo Ivo Skoric ***** iskoric@igc.apc.org 212.369.9197 PO Box 46, NYC NY 10029, USA http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/ ivo.html