Press Council in Bosnia-Herzegovina received 42 complaints and representatives of the civil society organisations to the article „Pederluk među djecom“ (“Faggotry Among Children”), published on November 10, 2013 on saff.ba. The article refers to the “Stand Up” project, dedicated to the prevention of gender based violence, implemented by the „Tuzlanska zajednica“ Foundation.
Citizens complainted that „… this text provides inaccurate and unconfirmed information thus inciting to discrimination, intolerance and stigmatiozation of LGBT persons“ through „politically incorrect speach starting from the headings, faggotry, faggot propaganda, faggot theories, etc”.
The Complaint Committee made their Decision, and concluded that there has been a drastic violation of Codex for Print and Online Media.
According to the regular procedure, the Decision will be posted to www.vzs.ba, and on Press Council’s webpage: http://www.facebook.com/Vijece
Press Council’s recommendation is that the Decision should be posted also on saff.ba.