[AMCC-News] **ALERT** Albanian Daily in Macedonia Banned! Macedonian security banns the distribution of FAKTI international edition Posted Friday, March 23, 2001

[Mentor Cana]

*** ALERT ***
Albanian Daily in Macedonia Banned!

Announcement from Shkupi daily newspaper on Albanian language FAKTI

Macedonian security banns the distribution of FAKTI international edition.
- Shkup, 23. 03. 2001 -

The Editor of Shkupi-based daily newspaper on Albanian language FAKTI
informs the public that the Macedonian State Security has banned the
distribution of the international edition of this newspaper to some of the
west European countries.

The entire circulation of the FAKTI-International, dedicated to
Switzerland, was confiscated amd banned for further distribution on March
22, 20001 ate 0700hrs at the International Airport in Shkupi.

This is the first time that the Macedonian security forces would ban the
distribution of some newspaper. Therefore, the Editor of FAKTI demands
from the Macedonian authorities to respect the Article 16 of the
Constitution of Macedonia and Article 10 of the European Human Rights
Convention that guarantee freedom of obtaining and transmitting
informations or ideas, without interference by state institutions and
regardless of state borders and allow the free distribution of FAKTI from
Skopje to Zurich.

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