The Romanian Television reporter in Chisinau Doru Dendiu was withdrawn his accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MAEIE) and was asked to leave the Republic of Moldova.
Dendiu told he was invited to the MAEIE headquarters, where he was showed an act announcing him his accreditation was being withdrawn over the violation of article 18 of the Rules on the accreditation of foreign journalists; he was also told to leave the Moldovan territory.
Dendiu told he was invited to the MAEIE headquarters, where he was showed an act announcing him his accreditation was being withdrawn over the violation of article 18 of the Rules on the accreditation of foreign journalists; he was also told to leave the Moldovan territory.
According to article 18, 'the accredited foreign journalists and their families are obliged to observe the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, the laws and other normative acts of the Republic of Moldova, the international principles of the journalist's professional ethics.
In case such provisions are not observed and also in case of a premeditated or biased falsification in the press of the data likely to seriously harm the foreign and internal policy of the Republic of Moldova or its social-economic stability, in the case of fomenting actions that might endanger the unity and territorial integrity of the state, the journalists can be stripped of their accreditation'.
Article 19 of the Rules says 'in case a foreign journalist is refused or is cancelled his/her accreditation, the ministry will immediately inform him/her about this and will also notify him/her the reasons having led to such a decision'.
Dendiu said he had not been notified the reasons why his accreditation had been withdrawn and he says he committed no violation during his stay in the Republic of Moldova. He added he would not challenge the ministry's decision, as he doesn't want to submit himself to risk. The MAEIE did not comment the decision to withdraw the accreditation of the TVR journalist.
However, last week several Moldovan officials, including President Vladimir Voronin, criticised the manner in which the Romanian news media covered the anti-communist protests staged in Chisinau and notably the fact that they called it a 'revolution'.
Voronin said on Friday that the coverage given by the Bucharest press to the events in his country proves Romania's involvement in the organisation of the street protests in Chisinau. Dendiu was detained and inquired by Moldovan police at the end of last week, right when he was getting ready to broadcast images from Chisinau for the TVR news programmes, as the street anti-communist protests were unfurling.
The Moldovan authorities broke the Romanian journalists' rights to doing their job several times. On Thursday, April 9, a group of reporters from Realitatea TV heading for Chisinau were held by the police, were interrogated and then expelled after a few hours. The same happened to the journalists of Antena 3 television.
The correspondents of several news media institutions left Chisinau last week after pressure put by the Moldovan authorities on their colleagues and due to the risk they were exposed to. Several international news media organisations, among which Reporters Sans Frontieres, the Organisation of South-Eastern Europe Press and the International Journalists Federation voiced concern over the freedom of the press in the Republic of Moldova; they called on Chisinau to respect the journalists' right to free movement and to freedom of speech.
The Moldovan news media organisations also issued a declaration voicing concern over the deterioration of the situation of t he press in the Republic of Moldova over the last days and the restrained access to the information of public interest.
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