ZAGREB, 3 November, 2021 - The Croatian Journalists Association (HND) on Wednesday welcomed the fact that Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) has dropped suits against the HND and the chair of its Croatian Television (HTV) branch, inviting new HRT director-general Robert Šveb to drop all suits against journalists and media.
The HRT has dropped a lawsuit it filed on 24 December 2018 against the HND and Sanja Mikleušević Pavić, an HTV journalist and president of the HND's HTV branch, over a September 2018 statement in which the branch condemned the resale of tickets to the World Football Championship, among other oversights, the HND said.
The HRT demanded HRK 200,000 in damages from the HND and HRK 50,000 from Mikleušević Pavić.
The public broadcaster has also dropped a lawsuit against the HND filed during the time of former HND president Saša Leković.
Incumbent president Hrvoje Zovko said dropping the suits was "a good move."
According to the HND, the HRT has not officially dropped the suits it filed against Zovko in which it demands HRK 250,000. In two of them, the HRT accused him of defamation after his claims about censorship, and in the third it accused him of appropriating HRT equipment.
