Protest of a group of citizens in front of the building of the Media Directorate: No targeting of journalists

A group of citizens of Podgorica gathered today, in front of the representative office of the Media Directorate of Montenegro, to express a protest demanding an end to the "policy of mobbing" and discrimination against journalists, as well as the spreading of fear and threats to all those who show their disagreement with the management of the Public Service RTCG.
Those gathered held up banners that read: "Neđeljko, your name is safe with us", "No targeting of journalists", "We demand a public apology", "Public interest must be the priority of public service..."
It is natural that journalists decided to speak publicly about what they encounter in the Public Service. This is a story about human rights, although first there was talk about the use of language, but we must pay the most attention to human rights, especially journalists, who have been under attack for a long time, not only by the RTCG management, but also by a part of the political elite of the ruling structures. - civic activist Aleksandra Radoman Kovačević told reporters.
This protest, as she said, is an attempt to draw attention to the inadmissibility of discrimination and mobbing that takes place in the Public Service and which, although it tries to cover it up, comes to the surface. She estimated that a public apology from RTCG management to Žarko Božović and Tanja Šuković would indicate a certain maturity.
Radoman Kovačević denied RTCG director Boris Raonic's allegations that they were politically manipulated, adding that they are all ordinary people who defend the Constitution and the law.
We need to stop with such connotations when it comes to ordinary people, who want this society to be healthy and to stick to what the rules and laws are - said Radoman Kovačević.
She is sure, as she said, that the citizens and journalists who gathered in front of the Media Directorate will not stop there, and that after the RTCG and the Directorate, they will go to a third address, without specifying which one, adding that the public will be informed about it later .
This is a call that the public interest must be respected, as well as the basic human and professional rights of RTCG employees, and that televisions whose owners are mostly from other countries, specifically from Serbia, have no right to spread false information. They currently play the biggest role after politicians and influence public opinion the most. I guess the goal of all of us is to get to the truth and say the right things and that the law and the constitution rule in this country - said Radoman Kovačević.
The editor-in-chief of Radio Antena M, Darko Šuković, also gave support to the gathered citizens and colleagues, who said that he sees this gathering as a demonstration of resistance to ugly things.
They primarily take place in the Public Service, by far the most important media house in Montenegro, which, even when it doesn't want to, sets standards on the media scene. What he's doing now are very ugly standards, it wouldn't do if it continued like that. I'm here to show that people have to stop and go back a little, because this doesn't lead to anything good - said Šuković.
We would like to remind you that Tanja Šuković, the long-time editor of the documentary program TVCG, the popular shows "Pečat" and "Dnevnika" at 19:30, was appointed, by the decision of the management of RTCG, as the head of documentation.
Šuković said earlier that she was proud of everything she had done so far in her second house in her nearly 30-year career. After the arrival of the new management team, led by Boris Raonic, he suffered constant mobbing and attempts at professional degradation. She is attending the protest today, and former Minister of Education Slobodan Backović is among those gathered.
Also, among those present are the dean of the Faculty of Montenegrin Language and Literature Adnan Čirgić, members of the Democratic Party of Socialists Nela Vukčević-Savković and Suzana Pribilović, political analyst Ranko Đonovic, and journalist Šeki Radončić.
As they pointed out, the gathering will be peaceful and any kind of different behavior will be considered a deliberate disruption of this honest process of rebellion due to the violation of key human rights.
We remind you that the Podgorica Citizens Group gathered last Saturday on the plateau in front of the RTCG building. Last week, the gathered citizens held up banners that read, among other things, "Resignation of Raonic"; "That one journalist is one of us"; "We demand a public apology"; "We have the right to express ourselves in our own language"; "Public interest must be the priority of public service"....
According to Podgorica's "Pobjeda", professor and professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences Veselin Pavićević and Olivera Komar attended the protest.
M. J.