Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
BIRN Protests Attack On Its Journalist
| 12 March 2008 |
Sarajevo _ The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, has sent a letter to the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, expressing concern over an assault on Besar Likmeta, Balkan Insight's editor in Albania.
Numerous international media organisations, embassies and international organisations that monitor freedom of press violations were also notified of the incident.
Likmeta was brutally attacked by a member of Albanian Parliament, Tom Doshi, during an interview in the evening of March 10 in Sheraton Hotel in Tirana. The assault happened in front of the eyes of another MP, Arben Isaraj, and many casual witnesses.
Balkan Insight obtained documents showing that the Albanian Ministry of Education had certified Doshi’s law degree from Tetovo University despite the fact that he never finished his studies in law. These facts came to light in research for an investigative report on February 20. You can read the investigative report at http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/investigations/8041/
In this report, Balkan Insight did not mention the name of Mr. Doshi. However, after this apparently fake degree disappeared from his CV on the official website of the Albanian Parliament, Balkan Insight requested an interview with Mr. Doshi, to give him an opportunity to clarify the matter. It was during that interview that Mr. Doshi attacked the Balkan Insight editor.
BIRN, Balkan Insight’s publisher, condemns this gesture and urges authorities in Albania to investigate the case and to do everything possible for such cases not to happen in the future.
Click here to read the text of the letter that BIRN sent to Prime Minister Berisha http://birn.eu.com/en/1/20/8541/
Likmeta was brutally attacked by a member of Albanian Parliament, Tom Doshi, during an interview in the evening of March 10 in Sheraton Hotel in Tirana. The assault happened in front of the eyes of another MP, Arben Isaraj, and many casual witnesses.
Balkan Insight obtained documents showing that the Albanian Ministry of Education had certified Doshi’s law degree from Tetovo University despite the fact that he never finished his studies in law. These facts came to light in research for an investigative report on February 20. You can read the investigative report at http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/investigations/8041/
In this report, Balkan Insight did not mention the name of Mr. Doshi. However, after this apparently fake degree disappeared from his CV on the official website of the Albanian Parliament, Balkan Insight requested an interview with Mr. Doshi, to give him an opportunity to clarify the matter. It was during that interview that Mr. Doshi attacked the Balkan Insight editor.
BIRN, Balkan Insight’s publisher, condemns this gesture and urges authorities in Albania to investigate the case and to do everything possible for such cases not to happen in the future.
Click here to read the text of the letter that BIRN sent to Prime Minister Berisha http://birn.eu.com/en/1/20/8541/
