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CPJ URGES TUDJMAN TO HELP DISCONTINUE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CRO REPORTER

ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday forwarded a letter to Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman requesting the discontinuation of the criminal prosecution of Orlanda Obad, a journalist with the "Jutarnji List" daily, and all persons accused of violating Article 295 of the Croatian Penal Code. The letter addressed on "His Excellency Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia", which Hina got on Friday from the Croatian Journalists' Association, read that "the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the criminal prosecution of Orlanda Obad, a Croatian journalist with the independent political daily Jutarnji List, who was charged with violating Article 295 of the Croatian Penal Code for revealing alleged business secrets about your family's financial holdings." The letter signed by the CPJ executive direc
ZAGREB, July 16 (Hina) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday forwarded a letter to Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman requesting the discontinuation of the criminal prosecution of Orlanda Obad, a journalist with the "Jutarnji List" daily, and all persons accused of violating Article 295 of the Croatian Penal Code. The letter addressed on "His Excellency Franjo Tudjman, President of Croatia", which Hina got on Friday from the Croatian Journalists' Association, read that "the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the criminal prosecution of Orlanda Obad, a Croatian journalist with the independent political daily Jutarnji List, who was charged with violating Article 295 of the Croatian Penal Code for revealing alleged business secrets about your family's financial holdings." The letter signed by the CPJ executive director, Ann Cooper, added that the Croatian Public Prosecutor's office filed charges against Obad on April 22, 1999, after Obad published an article in Jutarnji List's issue of October 17, 1998, in which she reported that President Tudjman's wife had approximately "$150,000 in a bank account at the Zagrebacka bank in Croatia", while this information was excluded from an earlier earnings declaration, "despite a new Croatian law ... that requires public officials to release the amount of their entire family holdings." "Although the revelations in Obad's article may have caused embarrassment to your family, information about the financial holdings of government officials and their families falls well within the category of public interest. As an international, non- governmental organisation of journalists dedicated to upholding press freedom around the world, CPJ believes that no journalist should be prosecuted for publishing such information," read the letter. The letter forwarded to President Tudjman added that this was "the second attempt by your government to charge journalists under article 295," recalling that a final court hearing is expected to take place in the fall for Ratko Boskovic, a journalist with the Globus weekly, who has been accused of having written an article which examined possible financial improprieties of the Rijeka- based Viktor Lenac shipyard in 1995. "CPJ is also very troubled" by the precedent that the Obad case sets in regard to the treatment of her sources. "Two employees from Zagrebacka bank, who admitted freely to the bank that they had provided the information to Obad were immediately fired," it said. "CPJ strongly protests against the prosecution of all these individuals for practicing their profession. We remind Your Excellency that Article 19 of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights to which Croatia is a signatory, grants journalists the freedom to 'seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," the letter added. CPJ urged President Tudjman "to take a leadership role in ensuring that Croatian official cease the unjustified harassment of Obad and other individuals accused under Article 295." (hina) ms

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