(Source: AEJ - Association of European Journalists) Thursday, November 05, 2015 AEJ 2015 CONGRESS: SPECIAL MEDIA FREEDOM REPORT ON BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA by Arman Fazlic (Sarajevo) The media community in Bosnia and Herzegovina is bearing the brunt of failings in the country's democratic development. BiH is ranked 66thout in 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index. Almost 20 years after the agreement to end the war, civil society and national institutions are struggling on many fronts against political forces causing serious damage to the media community. The absence of genuine rule of law manifests itself through the prevalence of impunity for attacks on journalists. In the last 8...
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