Friday, October 19, 2007

Croatian blogger arrested for publishing secret state informations!


Journalist and blogger Željko Peratović was arrested few days ago under the suspicion of publishing some secret state information. Police bursted into his apartment and took him for questioning around 14 o'clock. In the evening they came back and arrested him!

They searched his apartment and confiscated 3 laptops and computer as well as the documents which they thought were politically important.

According to Željko, the reason for his arrest were some documents and information which he published on his blog few months ago, but those documents and information were already published on other news portals!

Police also searched the offices of Blog.hr, blogging service Željko Peratović is using for blogging, and ordered deletion of "secret" files from his blog which are important for this case.

This incident is currently top story in Croatia. Bloggers are angry and wonder if they will be the next to get arrested. Will Croatian bloggers be censored?

Journalists convicted this act as well as politicians because we are in front of elections!

Our law grants us with the freedom of speech, but cases like this one gives us the opposite feeling. What can we do to fight for our freedom of speech?

Nothing but to raise our voice against this kind of oppression and to tell the whole world what is happening!

Please, spread the word!

1 komentari:

Anonymous said...

@Marina, TNX ;)