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The authors of the petition find the Parliament’s actions of isolating media representatives “lacking any justification, either legal or moral. The right to free expression is one of the fundamental values of the modern pluralist democracy and a catalyst of positive developments achieved by the contemporary world,” the petition says.
Media experts also say that the limitation of journalists’ access to the works of the Parliament plenum and their placement into a room without proper working conditions is a violation of the right to free expression and of the right to work. At the same time, these actions contradict the principle of transparency in decision making.
We shall remind that journalists were prohibited access to the meeting room of the Parliament more than two months ago, with the law-making authority being transferred to the renovated building. Media representatives are forced to stay in a separate room, without any possibility to record plenary meetings on video by themselves or to have control over the images or filming angles, as they follow events on the several monitors installed in the media center. Such technical conditions are an obstacle in the exercise of the journalists’ work.
The Parliament leadership and the heads of the parliamentary majority groups promised to find solutions that would allow the media to return to the meeting room, but their promises have not yet materialized into concrete actions.
The first signatories of the petition were the participants of the flashmob “Corrals are for sheep, not for us!”, organized at the end of last week by a group of journalists and representatives of media NGOs.
The petition (with all signatures obtained) will be delivered to the President and Members of Parliament by the end of this week.
The petition can be signed HERE by all those protecting and promoting freedom of the media and access to information and supporting the creation of decent working conditions for journalists.
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