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Croatian Journalists Association press release, March 17, 2008-03-18

We support Željko Peratović petition

The Croatian Journalists Association supports its member Željko Peratović, a freelance journalist and blogger, petition he has sent to the Council for Civil Supervision of Security-Intelligence Agencies and the Croatian Parliament’s Committee for Internal Politics and National Security, asking them to protect his human and professional rights and freedoms. These days, an alleged SOA document has been published. If the document is authentic, it follows that the SOA has been incriminating Željko Peratović for his writing. Besides that, another implication is that the SOA has been intervening on blogs using its own comments and enquiring about the identity of those commenting blogs. We appeal to the Council for Civil Supervision of Security-Intelligence Agencies and the Croatian Parliament’s Committee to look into the authenticity of the aforementioned document and protect Peratović’s human and professional rights.

Zdenko Duka, president