Štefica Galić

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Štefica Galić

Štefica Galić (* 1963 in Ograđenik ) is a human rights activist, photographer and journalist from Bosnia and Herzegovina . She belongs to the ethnic group of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Galić comes from the city of Ljubuški , which is mainly inhabited by Croatians , but had to leave it due to the hostility to which she is exposed through her work. She lives in Mostar , is widowed and grandmother of two.

During the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, together with her husband Nedjeljko Galić, she helped hundreds of Bosniaks to escape internment in a camp using forged identity papers . She became a journalist after the death of her husband in 2001. Since 2010 she has been editor-in-chief of the independent news website tacno.net, on which she corrects nationalist narratives and on the crimes of the Bosnian-Croatian army HVO during the Yugoslav warsclears up. Galić accuses politics and the media that are dependent on it of establishing "an official, fabricated truth" about the Yugoslav wars. She has been the target of continued rape and death threats for years.

On July 18, 2012, Galić was attacked and injured by strangers in Ljubuški, two days after her documentary about her late husband's life achievement was broadcast . She had to seek medical treatment. The film was heavily criticized , especially by Croatian veteran organizations . Even in the run-up to the film, Galić and her children had been threatened. Galić filed a criminal complaint for bodily harm and defamation against unknown persons and against the operators of various websites on the Internet. The case attracted international attention. The European Union , the USA , the OSCE and Human Rights Watch criticized the Bosnian-Herzegovinian police for their assessment that the attack was only a minor crime. The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, described the attack on Galić as “completely unacceptable” and the police reaction as “worrying.” The organization Reporters Without Borders called on the Bosnian-Herzegovinian authorities to protect Galić and theirs Ensuring family and holding those responsible to account. In October 2013, a woman employed by the local administration was given a suspended sentence for involvement in the crime. Galic continued to receive threats.

In 2017, Galić criticized a memorial service for Slobodan Praljak . She said that society would never recover from the suffering that Franjo Tuđman's “sick and hegemonic policies” brought upon it in the 1990s if one did not deal with the crimes of the past, ask for forgiveness from the victims and begin with them to build a common future. In 2019, Galić published an article about the murder of civilians in Ljubuški in 1993.

In 2012 Galić received the Bosnian “ Duško Condor Prize for Civil Courage ”. In 2018 she and Josephine Achiro Fortelo were awarded the Johann Philipp Palm Prize for freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Štefica Galić has been protected by the German Bundestag since September 2019.

Štefica Galić is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croats , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .

Web links

Commons : Štefica Galić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Prize winners of the 9th Johann Philipp Palm Prize for Freedom of Expression and the Press come from Bosnia and South Sudan. Palm Foundation, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Croatian ministers at the commemoration of war criminal Praljak. Der Standard , December 11, 2017, accessed August 16, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Srdjan Govedarica: Fighting against nationalist circles of power. Deutschlandfunk , May 5, 2018, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Eldina Jasarevic: Situation in Mostar and Capljina - “Camps are part of the war”. ARD Vienna, December 8, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
  5. ^ Srdjan Govedarica, Henryk Jarczyk: Difficult coexistence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bayerischer Rundfunk , April 27, 2018, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ OSCE Representative expresses concern for safety of journalists in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, following recent ICTY was crimes sentencing. OSCE, December 5, 2017, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor , April 19, 2013, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  8. ^ Roy Greenslade: How political leaders in former Soviet states threaten press freedom. The Guardian , July 23, 2012, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ World Report; Country Summary Bosnia And Herzegovina. (PDF) Human Rights Watch, January 2013, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Bosnian Journalist Attacked. Voice of America , August 6, 2012, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  11. ↑ a b Website editor attacked and beaten over documentary. Reporters Without Borders, July 23, 2012, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  12. ^ Roy Greenslade: Balkan journalists face threats and intimidation, says report. The Guardian , July 15, 2015, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  13. ^ Western Balkans: Media Freedom Under Threat. Human Rights Watch, July 15, 2015, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Štefica Galić: Who killed you? (Ko ih je ubio?). Tačno.net, September 11, 2019, accessed on September 12, 2019 (Serbo-Croatian).
  15. ↑ Palm Prize for two strong women. Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen , May 26, 2018, accessed on August 15, 2018 .
  16. ^ The speech of the Bosnian journalist Štefica Galić on the occasion of the presentation of the Johann Philipp Palm Prize 2018 . In: Journalists help journalists . Munich December 15, 2018 ( journalistenhelfen.org [accessed December 22, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Adin Šabić: Member of the Bundestag, Manuel Sarrazin: Štefica Galić can count on our protection. Tačno.net, September 11, 2019, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Galić, Štefica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bosnian-Herzegovinian human rights activist, photographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ograđenik