<nettime> GOVERNMENT SEIZES STUDIO B - PLUG PULLED ON B292

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

GOVERNMENT SEIZES STUDIO B - PLUG PULLED ON B292

17.05.00 BELGRADE, Wednesday - In a two-pronged attack at about 0200 CET
this morning the Serbian Government seized control of the prominent Belgrade
municipal broadcaster Studio B, shutting off its news. The attack also
pulled the plug on the programme of independent Radio B292 in Belgrade,
whose broadcasts are carried on Studio B's third channel.

A press statement signed by Serbian vice-premiers Mr. Vojislav Seselj
(leader of the Serbian Radical Party) and Mr. Milovan Bojic (prominent
member of JUL) released this morning said that the Republic of Serbia had
taken control of Studio B because the station had "repeatedly called for the
overthrow of the Serbian government".
The director and editor-in-chief of Studio B Mr. Dragan Kojadinovic (member
of the SPO), described the act as the "completely illegal takeover of the
Belgrade's municipal broadcaster, which shows that the government is
practically introducing a state of emergency in the country."

(BBC Radio reported 100 policemen had stormed the building)

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