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Frontlines No surrender! An online exhibition championing women journalists who have continued to fight for the right of the public to know despite threats, attacks, and gender-based discrimination. View Gallery or Read about the project Albania Sonila Musai I would encourage my colleagues or the new journalist that face difficult situations such as mine to not give up on their dreams. We should act together, and we should report the truth. Read more Sonila Musai English Albanian Sonila Musai, was violently dragged from the police while reporting live the resistance of the Albanian residents against the demolition of their apartments in the neighborhood 5 Maji” in Tirana. „In this regard I also have a legal case open, but I am confident that the court will give light to the truth. Believing in rule of law and believing on the truth has helped me, to not give up”, said Musai. Sonila Musai, u tërhoq me dhunë nga policia teksa raportonte live protestën e banorëve shqiptar kundër prishjes së banesave të tyre në lagjen 5 Maji” në Tiranë. Në këtë kuader, unë kam një çështje ligjore të hapur, por jam e sigurt se gjykata do t’i japë dritë të vërtetës. Besimi në ligjin e së drejtës dhe besimi për të vërtetën më ka ndihmuar, të mos heq dorë”, tha Musai. Antela Lika I encourage all my colleague to go beyond press conferences, to go beyond the facades, to go beyond the already prepared press releases by newsrooms. Read more Antela Lika English Albanian While reporting on duty, outside the perimeter of the OVITAL company’s in the village of Sukthit Durres, which had disposed the chickens in a place close to the inhabited centers, some people who introduced themselves as representatives of the company broke the camera of the cameraman and life-threated journalist Lika. Journalists of the investigative TV show Fiks Fare were physically attacked on 8th February while filming illegal mining at the Zeze River in Nikel, Fushe Kruje, about 30 km from the capital in Albania. The journalists’ drone was shot by a weapon and three men with guns stepped forward, pointing the guns at the filming crew just meters away. A masked man then came up to them, trying to take the camera with the footage and physically attacking the film crew while also threatening their lives for more than 30 minutes. Although they managed to escape, they had been waiting for over 50 minutes for the police patrol to intervene. Gjatë raportimit në detyrë, jashtë perimetrit të kompanisë OVITAL në fshatin Sukthit të Durrësit, e cila kishte varrosur pulat në një vend shumë pranë qendrave të banuara, disa persona të cilët u prezantuan si përfaqësues të kompanisë thyen kamerën e kameramanit. dhe ka vënë në rrezik jetën e gazetares Lika. Gazetarët e emisionit investigativ Fiks Fare u sulmuan fizikisht më 8 shkurt teksa po filmonin germimet ilegale në lumin Zeze në Nikel, Fushë Krujë, rreth 30 km larg kryeqytetit në Shqipëri. Droni i gazetarëve u qëllua me armë dhe tre burra me armë dolën përpara, duke i drejtuar armët grupit te xhirimit vetëm disa metra larg. Më pas një person i maskuar iu afrua atyre, duke u përpjekur të merrte kamerën me pamjet dhe duke sulmuar fizikisht grupin e xhirimit, duke kërcënuar edhe jetën e tyre për më shumë se 30 minuta. Ndonëse arritën të arratiseshin, kishin mbi 50 minuta që prisnin ndërhyrjen e patrullës së policisë. Bosnia and Herzegovina Tanja Topić What is devastating is that as citizens we are unprotected and that the masks have definitely fallen, that the courts and prosecutor’s offices are under political pressure. Read more Tanja Topić English Bosnian In Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is common for politicians to sue journalists for defamation. Every year an average of 150 lawsuits are filed against journalists and the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in almost 70 percent of these cases the plaintiffs are politicians and other public officials. Journalist and analyst from Banja Luka Tanja Topić did something unusual – she sued one of the most powerful politicians in the country for defamation. In May 2021, Tanja Topić was targeted by the then member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and president of the SNSD party, Milorad Dodik , who publicly accused her of being aproven agent of the German BND (foreign intelligence service of Germany), acting through her NGO . The people in my area know that she is in the service of the German intelligence structures, and they know what the Germans did here and how those who were quislings got by. She is a proven quisling” , said Dodik. After these statements, Topić filed a defamation lawsuit against Milorad Dodik, explaining that it’s more than obvious that the contested statement was an extremely rude and brutal attack on the plaintiff’s reputation and honor, and that in addition, the contested statement put in serious danger the plaintiff and members of her family.” The Basic Court in Banja Luka, however, didn’t think so. In the first-instance verdict, which was passed on December 2 last year, the Court concluded that Milorad Dodik is not guilty of defamation, and his public accusation that Tanja Topić is a spy working for foreign intelligence services is nothing more than expressing a value judgment/opinion” and does not harm Topić’s reputation. In the explanation of the decision of the Basic Court in Banja Luka rejecting the defamation lawsuit, it is stated that the plaintiff (Tanja Topić) is a public figure as an activist in the NGO sector and a ‘political analyst’, that it is indisputable that the first defendant (Milorad Dodik) political activity and programs are constantly criticized by ‘political analysts’, including the public activities of the plaintiff himself, so this means that the plaintiff clearly does not respect the first defendant as a person, and then the question arises as to why the first defendant would respect the plaintiff…”. In short, Tanja Topić, as a political analyst, has been criticizing the authorities in Republika Srpska for years, which, the Court believes, means that she disrespects” Milorad Dodik as a person. The verdict of the Basic Court in Banja Luka surprised only a few. In a country where the influence of politics on the judiciary is one of the hot topics, even the greatest optimists didn’t expect that the Court would rule that Milorad Dodik was guilty of defamation. Legal expert and one of the founders of the Banja Luka Center for Human Rights, Dejan Lučka , in a detailed analysis of the aforementioned verdict, concludes somewhat philosophically that shame does not exist in court, but there are metaphors and fear of the empire”. Such a shameful interpretation of the Basic Court is a true indicator of the fear that judges have to rule against the interests of one of the ‘high’ politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina” , Lučka believes. Tanja Topić’s lawyers filed an appeal against the first-instance verdict of the Basic Court in Banja Luka. In the past months, Tanja Topić was supported by numerous domestic and international organizations, representatives of embassies, journalist associations and the media… Creating enemies” and quislings” is a pattern according to which the government in Republika Srpska has been operating for years, says Tanja Topić: Every criticism, every voice that is different, that by name and surname pointed to violations of the law, abuses, clientelism, corruption, nepotism, that criticized democratic deficits in society and belittling institutions, according to that pattern is presented as an enemy of society and a foreign mercenary.” U Bosni i Hercegovini je uobičajeno da političari tuže novinare zbog klevete. Svake godine protiv novinara i medija u BiH podnese se u prosjeku oko 150 tužbi, a u skoro 70 posto slučajeva tužitelji su političari i drugi javni funkcioneri. Novinarka i analitičarka iz Banjaluke Tanja Topić uradila je nešto nesvakidašnje – za klevetu je tužila jednog od najmoćnijih političara u zemlji. U maju 2021. godine, Tanja Topić našla se...