Protest in front of the Media Directorate: The silence of the institutions shows that the situation in Montenegro is much worse

A group of Podgorica citizens gathered this Saturday in front of the Directorate for Media on the occasion of the latest events in the Radio and Television of Montenegro, demanding that the policy of mobbing and discrimination against journalists with a decades-long reputation be abolished.
By peacefully gathering, the citizens sent a message that they will persist in their demands to publicly and decisively condemn the spreading of fear and threats to all those who show their disagreement with the management of the RTCG public service.
Citizens carried numerous banners saying: "No targeting of journalists", "That "one journalist" is one of us", "Neđeljko, your name is safe with us", "We demand a public apology", "Who will answer and when for a scandal?", "Public interest must be the priority of the Public Service", "We have the right to express ourselves in our own language", "Do not attack the state, the Constitution and laws"...
The editor-in-chief of Pobjeda Draško Đuranović, responding to the question of how he comments on the silence of the authorities on citizen gatherings, said that it was nothing unexpected.
The silence of RTCG management and state institutions is not unexpected, because it is a political agenda. This is a story about the threat to freedom of speech and the rights of people who work in the media. The case of Tanja Šuković is just indicative and unfortunately not the only one. The silence of the institutions only shows that the situation in Montenegro is, unfortunately, much worse - said Đuranović.
When asked why there are the fewest journalists among the crowd, Đuranović says that it is important for citizens to understand what it is all about.
I think this is a question not only of journalists, but of civil liberties and the right to freedom of expression. It is important that the citizens, first of all, understand what it is about and that they express some kind of protest and that we fight for what is a basic human right, which is the right to freedom of expression, the right to be free in the workplace in accordance with professional standards - said Đuranović.
Marković: The ombudsman is sleeping soundly
Civic activist Jelena Marković said that in a democratic way they are trying to draw attention to all the problems facing our country and collapsed institutions.
Today, we joined the citizens to try to wake up the Ombudsman who, as one banner says, is "sleeping in a deep sleep", not reacting to discrimination and things he should be reacting to. We have someone at the head of the institution who wants to turn that institution into a dead institution, and it is currently like that. We are trying to make it known that the institution of the Ombudsman should not have kept quiet about everything it kept quiet about - Marković told reporters.
She said that today the citizens want to send a message that they do not put up with the things that are happening.
I hope the protests will continue. Personally, I am in favor of radicalization, for the man (ombudsman) to think about his job, that is, the function he performs and to understand from the position he is in that he needs to work his conscience - said Marković.
M.J. - POBJEDA