ZAGREB, April 27 (Hina) - Although there were many objections to the government-sponsored final text of amendments to the Media Law, the Croatian parliament's legislation committee endorsed the proposed changes and their adoption
under urgent procedure.
ZAGREB, April 27 (Hina) - Although there were many objections to the
government-sponsored final text of amendments to the Media Law, the
Croatian parliament's legislation committee endorsed the proposed
changes and their adoption under urgent procedure.#L#
"There was enough time to improve the text of the law after it was
annulled by the Constitutional Court for procedural reasons, but this
proposal aggravates the position of everybody in the media," said
Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Pero Kovacevic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) said that while
the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was in opposition it had
severely criticised the law, but now when being in power it was
proposing more o less the same law.
Kovacevic said that his party was going to propose an amendment under
which a court could order reporters to reveal the identity of their
source of information in order to facilitate an investigation in an
important case. In this context the HSP deputy cited an interview of
the fugitive general Ante Gotovina with the 'Nacional' weekly.
(Hina) ms