Radio B92 Belgrade: The Legal File
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JURIST has obtained the following documents pertaining to the government shutdown of Yugoslavia's leading independent broadcaster, Radio B92 Belgrade, on April 2, 1999, and to the legal actions that have since been taken by its former management and the Yugoslavian Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM). For the information of the international media and legal communities, the documents are published here "as is". Any opinions expressed in these documents are solely those of their authors.

• Radio B92: chronology of events and legal actions (March 24 - August 16, 1999)
  • JURIST interviews Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic (August 16, 1999)
  
  
  
• Decision of the Commercial Court appointing a new station Director, in effect closing B92 (April 2, 1999)
  
  
• Appeal against the Decision of the Commercial Court (by former B92 Director Sasa Markovic; April 5, 1999)
  
  
• Complaint to the Commercial Court re: the seizure of ANEM's premises (by ANEM; April 5, 1999)
  
  
• Letter to the President of the Commercial Court requesting that ANEM be allowed to use its premises (by ANEM; April 5, 1999)
  
  
• Complaint to the First Municipal Court charging the newly-appointed station Director, Alexsandar Nikacevic, with usurping ANEM's premises (by ANEM; April 5, 1999)
  
  
• Ruling of the First Municipal Court rejecting ANEM's motion (April 14, 1999)
  
  
• Decision suspending B92's ANEM membership until further notice (by ANEM's Managing Board, April 18, 1999)
  
  
• Appeal against the Decision of the First Municipal Court (by ANEM; April 20, 1999)
  
  
• Action in the First Municipal Court to annul the new Statute of the state-owned B92 and all decisions made thereunder (by B92 employees and former B92 Director Sasa Mirkovic; June 10, 1999)
  
  
• Dismissal of B92 Appeal in the Higher Commercial Court (press release by ANEM/B92; August 16, 1999)
  
  
• Instructions for the Work of Media and News Agencies In Case of an Immediate Danger of War (Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia)
  
  
• analysis of the Instructions for the Work of Media and News Agencies In Case of an Immediate Danger of War
  
  
• legal analysis of the Yugoslavian Federal Government's Decree on Application of the Criminal Procedure During the State of War
  
  
• legal analysis of the Decree on Internal Affairs During the State of War
  
  
• legal analysis of the Decrees on Organizing and Fulfilling Material Obligation

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