Kosovar journalists need to demand implementation of their access to information rights
In Kosovo, access to information is well guaranteed in theory — in practise it’s a different story.
As long as we continue filing requests for access, being denied, writing a report about it and leaving it at that — we are not helping much.
Official refusal
In a normal and well-established democracy, once a court reaches a final verdict, the parties involved are obliged to respect and implement it.
It is not sufficient to complain once the law has changed.
Furtuna Sheremeti
Furtuna Sheremeti is a criminologist and legal scholar specializing in state crime, state harms, transitional justice and international criminal law. She holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford and is completing her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Prishtina and serves as a legal consultant to Rexhep Selimi’s defense team before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.