BOSNIAN ISLAMIC RADIO NOTES FINE ON TV STATION, REFERS TO OFFICIAL'S ETHNICITY
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 9, 2005

Excerpt from report aired on Bosnian private Islamic station Radio Naba web site on 7 January

(Announcer) The Bosnia-Hercegovina Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) has fined the TV station Alfa 50,000 KM (convertible marks). Based on a report by IRIB's (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) journalist from Sarajevo, the Bosnia-Hercegovina Radio-Television Alfa has been fined the maximum sum of 50,000 KM just because it had aired the hutba (sermon) of the mubarak (happy) month of Ramadan. The agency has also fined the (Bosnian) Federation Radio-Television 5,000 KM for publicizing the report of the Islamic Bank in the country. Radio Television 99 has been fined with 2,000 KM for what is referred to as violation of professional laws (as received).

Radio-Television Alfa aired radio programmes in the Bosnian language and (TV) Sahar programmes in the Bosnian language. (Passage omitted)

The presidency of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Communications Regulatory Agency is in the hands of a Jew named Jakob Finci (chair of the CRA Implementation Board; the CRA Council is chaired by an international).

Source: Radio Naba web site, Visoko, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1730 gmt 7 Jan 05

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