1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Attacks on the Press 2001: Bosnia-Herzegovina - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="HE6V5nl6nf"><a href="https://cpj.org/2002/03/attacks-on-the-press-2001-bosniaherzegovina/">Attacks on the Press 2001: Bosnia-Herzegovina</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2002/03/attacks-on-the-press-2001-bosniaherzegovina/embed/#?secret=HE6V5nl6nf" width="600" height="338" title="“Attacks on the Press 2001: Bosnia-Herzegovina” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="HE6V5nl6nf" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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While Bosnia's ethnically fragmented media showed modest signs of integration in 2001, independent journalists endured threats, harassment, and violence from political parties and government officials. Nationalist and reformist parties battled in the November 2000 elections, with mixed results. The Bosnian Serb nationalist SDS party, formerly led by indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic, handily won in…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260