Skopje, 9 July 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services most strongly condemns the physical attack on the Alsat-M television journalist crew, which was today documenting the fire at the Vizbegovo landfill today.
Journalists’ safety is an essential prerequisite for professional and independent reporting, which in turn is the foundation of the citizens’ right to be informed in an accurate, timely and objective fashion.
It is essential that journalists have the opportunity to freely and safely perform their professional duties in the interest of the public. Therefore, violence against media workers, in any form, is absolutely unacceptable and must be clearly sanctioned.