Serbia and Montenegro/Removal of an editor-in-chief

IFEX: Editor-in-chief of local weekly replaced by Valjevo municipal assembly appointee

"The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation, a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute, is concerned about the recent removal of an editor-in-chief in Valjevo, Serbia."

"According to information before SEEMO, the new municipal assembly of the town of Valjevo replaced Olga Petrovic, editor-in-chief and managing director of the local municipal weekly, Napred, with Jovan Bugarski, a member of the Serbian Socialist Party."

"SEEMO is also informed that Napred journalists, who have been on strike since 11 July in protest of Petrovic's replacement, were not allowed to enter the premises of the weekly."