Attacks on journalists are attacks on the essence of democracy, and the fact that the perpetrators of the previous attacks were not punished shows that the expected consequence is the repetition of such attacks. Therefore, the Democrats believe that violence against public speech should be treated in the most serious possible way and the perpetrators should be punished, and journalists should be enabled to perform their duties in accordance with the standards of the profession, said the spokeswoman of the Democrats, Anđela Peković.
Peković added that they consider any attempt to threaten the rights and safety of public speakers from Democratic Montenegro to be inadmissible.
"In the darkness of human rights in Montenegrin society, it seems that those inviolable human rights are also threatened, so every attempt to turn on the light is tried to be prevented, without choosing the means and methods," said Peković.
"That in our country, in Montenegro, it is risky to be a journalist is shown by the last one the case of attempted intimidation of the General Director of the Public Service of Radio and Television of Montenegro, Vojvodić, which is just one in a series of attacks on public speech and examples of brutal threats to media freedom. Free media is an extremely important factor in the fight for the protection of human rights, but it seems that trampled rights and freedoms in Montenegro do not lead to a human agreement on how to solve this problem and show that we are a democratic society, but the perception of problems in the functioning of our state and society "rewards" as in the case of Vojvodić. We strive for membership in the European Union, but first something much faster must be achieved, and that is freedom of speech," Peković said.
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