Workers' group RTCG: Increasingly aggressive practice of brutal violation of human rights and sanctioning of freedom of expression

A group of Radio Television of Montenegro workers sent a letter to the Public Service Council in which, among other things, they point out that RTCG management, headed by general director Boris Raonic, is increasingly aggressively implementing the practice of brutally violating basic human rights and sanctioning freedom of expression in the Public Service.
We transmit their letter to the RTCG Council in its entirety:
"If you are not up to date, we inform you that the management of RTCG, led by general director Boris Raonic, is increasingly aggressively implementing the practice of brutally violating basic human rights and sanctioning freedom of expression in the Public Service. Namely, just a few days after expressing support for colleague Žarko Božović ( which is prohibited from using the Iotov variant of the Montenegrin language), the retaliation against the signatories of the response, which was duly submitted to the RTCG Council last week, has begun.
A new blow was suffered by colleague Dragan Tomašević, who during Raonic's short tenure went from Director of Production to cameraman, as well as colleague Tanja Šuković, former editor of the Documentary Program, for whom the general manager has already changed her job description for the third time, reducing her coefficient and earnings, including with the freshest offer for the head of Documentation. We appreciate that the general director's subsequent letter before midnight to Tanja Šuković, encouraging her to reject the offer, is just another perfidious attempt to provide legal cover for the delivery of resignations to undesirables and to silence the justified reaction of the public.
We remind you that the persecution of Tanja Šuković and Dragan Tomašević began in September 2021, when the editorial staff and management of the Public Service, in violation of all ethical codes, joined the attackers of their employees. And then most colleagues, who publicly opposed the persecution of Tanja Šuković and Dragan Tomašević, were punished by assignment to lower-ranking positions.
The general director's discriminatory mission, which began immediately after his (illegal) election to the top position in the Public Service, is confirmed by the dismissal that one of the most respected Montenegrin journalists, the former general director of RTCG Branko Vojičić, received earlier, only because, a year before his retirement, he refused an offer to be a reporter in the Morning Program. These days, dismissals have also been handed out to colleagues Duška Stanić, Milena Bugarin, Lazar Tovjanin, and Draško Vučinić.
As a sign of protest against the attempted professional degradation and collapse of the Public Service, several professionals responsible for its development have already left our media house. The total number of shifts and dismissals without explanation is difficult to determine, because they are carried out daily. The fact that in the past 18 months the Council voted for 252 changes to the systematization of jobs, i.e. changed the titles and responsibilities of a third of the employees, sounds alarming and calls on the competent institutions to ask themselves and investigate - what is happening in the Public Service.
We address the same question to the RTCG Council. And we again demand the responsibility of the general director Boris Raonic and his subordinates for the ban on the use of the Yotov variant of the Montenegrin language, but also the responsibility for the unprecedented cutting of personnel, the violation of the fundamental human rights and freedoms of employees and the systematic suppression of the mission of the Public Service.
To be continued...
M. J.