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  • Montenegrin Coronavirus Patients’ Identities Exposed Online | Balkan Insight
    https://balkaninsight.com/2020/03/18/montenegrin-coronavirus-patients-identities-exposed-online

    Un cyberharcèlement d’un nouveau genre. Cette réaction doit nous inquiéter très fortement sur les fractures qui vont intervenir dans la société, la désignation de « l’autre » comme vecteur du mal. On a déjà connu ça. Il faut stopper maintenant. J’espère que les gens qui ont posté les photo sur les médias sociaux sont en prison... mais je pense qu’il ne le sont pas, les « médiateurs » n’ont certainement pas fait le suivi, ne peuvent pas donner les suagers,... alors ça continuera. C’est comme ça que les trolls de l’armé birmane ont provoqué le massacre des Rohyngas... On est malbarre, et on va découvrir autant le côté utile des médias sociaux (garder le contact, se distraire, socialiser) que la face noire de la façon dont ceux qui existent ont été organisés pour laisser le pire provoquer de « l’engagement ».

    After Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic announced on Tuesday evening that the country had its first two coronavirus cases, the patients’ identities were published by social media users.

    Photos of one of the patients and her family were also posted online.

    The ethnicities and religious beliefs of the patients were then targeted with hate-speech comments by some people on social networks.

    The Montenegrin Association against AIDS, CAZAS, said that that every patient has the right to privacy and medical confidentiality.

    “If you share photos of people who are infected on social networks and spread information about their health, you are directly violating [their] privacy and patient’s rights. There can be legal consequences for doing that,” CAZAS said in a press release.

    President of the NGO Civic Alliance, Boris Raonic, warned about the danger of intolerance spreading in country as a result of the coronavirus.

    “The stigmatisation of the infected and their families is a great danger in the coming period,” Raonic wrote on Twitter.

    The first two coronavirus patients in the country had both recently returned to Montenegro, from Spain and from the US. One patient is from the city of Ulcinj and the other from the capital Podgorica.

    Montenegro is a multi-ethnic state and is highly unusual in having no overwhelming community that makes up over half of its population.

    About 45 per cent of the population identify as Montenegrins and about 29 per cent as Serbs. Albanians make up about 5 per cent of the population.

    #Cyberharcèlement #Coronavirus