Earlier this month, the latest Freedom House report on the state of democracy in former communist countries concluded that Serbia, together with Montenegro and Hungary, can no longer be regarded as a democracy.
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07. maj 2020.
Facebook Takes Axe to Pages Showing ‘Inauthentic Behaviour’
The social media giant last month shut down networks of accounts posting in Serbian, Bosnian and Hungarian, originating from Russia and Iran that aimed to manipulate the public, its April report says.
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30. apr 2020.
Serbian reporter Ana Lalić on her arrest and detention over COVID-19 report
On April 1, Serbian police arrested Ana Lalić, a reporter for news website Nova.rs, just hours after she published a report on chaotic conditions in a local hospital.
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29. apr 2020.
CoE warns of rising number of attacks on Serbian media
The Council of Europe (CoE) said in its annual press freedom report that the number of attacks on media, including death threats, is on the rise in Serbia, adding that “inflammatory rhetoric often comes from public officials”.
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17. apr 2020.
Most people are in quarantine, but the enemies of press freedom are not
Some governments, as well as other actors, abuse the sanitary emergency to violate press freedom. Their actions range from repressive laws, allowing arbitrary prosecutions, to hate campaigns against critical journalists, says Pavol Szalai, a new Head of European Union & Balkans Desk of Reporters Without Borders.
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03. apr 2020.
Three Serbian journalists reporting on COVID-19 issues arrested in one week
Journalists must be able to cover pandemic without fear of arrest, IPI says
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16. feb 2020.
Media expert: Changes to media regulator are essentially insignificant
Recent changes made in Serbia’s regulatory body for electronic media appear to be only cosmetic and designed to satisfy international officials while not really changing anything essential in the media landscape, media expert Smiljana Milinkov told N1 on Sunday.
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20. nov 2019.
Independent Serbian TV channel subjected to smear campaigns, intimidation
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Serbian government to stop supporting and instead publicly condemn attempts to intimidate N1, Serbia’s only major independent TV channel, whose journalists have been subjected to repeated, systematic defamatory attacks by the government and pro-government media in recent weeks.
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06. okt 2019.
KRIK’s Journalist Family House Broken Into
The family house of KRIK’s journalist Milica Vojinovic was broken into while she and her family were abroad. Her cousin found a ransacked home today. The case will be reported to the police and to a group for journalists’ safety.
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25. sep 2019.
Politicians who view journalists as enemies or security threats encourage attacks
Populists emphasize domestic isolationism and security over all else, including and especially freedom of the media and expression. This framing puts our safety and our freedoms at odds, when actually, we can't have one without the other, and positions journalists and media workers as a threat to that safety, says Jennifer Adams, international expert focused on protection of female journalists on the Internet
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17. sep 2019.
Podcast – The war online: Abuse and harassment, and what journalists are doing about it (AUDIO)
Journalists are increasingly the target of insults or threats from individuals or groups online, which can have physical impacts and should no longer be seen as separate from the offline world. The goal of the harassment? Censorship. And women bear the brunt of the abuse, which is usually gendered and sexualised. In this episode: Ceyda Karan, Turkish journalist, Marija Vucic, Serbian journalist with KRIK Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, Nighat Dad, lawyer, founder of the Digital Rights Foundation in Pakistan, and Viktorya Vilk, manager of special projects, Free Expression Programmes, PEN America
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12. sep 2019.
Serbian member of pro-Kremlin biker club under investigation for assaulting a female journalist
The journalist's news portal also came under hacker attacks
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09. jul 2019.
Coliver: Assange Shouldn’t Stand Trial in the United States; Snowden is a Hero
Both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden represent challenges for the U.S. system that guarantees freedom of expression. We asked Sandra Coliver, a world-renowned expert for freedom of media and expression, how this all may play out.
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09. jul 2019.
Coliver: How Trump has shaken up the system that in the U.S. guarantees full freedom of expression
The argument could be made that the system right now is out of balance; that our tradition of tolerance doesn’t quite know what to do with this new situation where the President makes statements that are inflammatory, says Sandra Coliver for Cenzolovka. Coliver is a world-renowned expert for freedom of media and expression, and in this interview, she talks about an extraordinary protections of speech in the U.S. guaranteed by the First Amendment.
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30. jun 2019.
Journalist followed and intimidated in front of her home and at work, only for a hacker attack to follow against the portal for which she writes
Verica Marinčić, a journalist of the portal 'Inđija cafe', from the town of the same name located between Novi Sad and Belgrade, has been attacked, followed and intimidated in the street where she lives and at work, which she reported to the police.
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30. jun 2019.
Politician continues lawsuits against journalist who was beaten last year
Dragoljub Simonovic, former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka and an official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), has sued Željko Matorčević, editor of local portal Zig info, for a ninth time.
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30. jun 2019.
TV N1 files criminal charge against Belgrade’s deputy mayor for publishing an email
Lawyers of television company N1 have submitted a criminal complaint to the Higher Public Prosecution Office in Belgrade's Department for Combatting High-Tech Crime against Deputy Belgrade Mayor Goran Vesić, who they accuse of having committed the criminal act of violating the confidentiality of letters and other shipments.
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25. jun 2019.
Broadcaster warns of “slow strangulation” of media plurality in Serbia
The owner of N1, one of the few remaining mainstream independent media outlets in Serbia, says media plurality in the EU accession candidate country is subject to “slow strangulation," the Beta news agency carried on Monday an interview intellinews.com had with Aleksandra Subotic, the United Group CEO.
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17. jun 2019.
Freedom House: media freedom being suffocated in Serbia
Media companies in Serbia are finding it increasingly difficult to do their job, with journalists often dubbed “traitors” and “foreign mercenaries”, while President Aleksandar Vučić and the Serbian government are following in the footsteps of Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, according to the report “Freedom and the media: A Downward Spiral”. Freedom House also adds that there has been a noticeable decline in media freedom since Vučić came to power.
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17. jun 2019.
TV Pančevo continues witch hunt against local journalist Nenad Živković
TV Pančevo has broadcast in its programme a feature in which it repeated accusations dating back three months, directed against pancevo.city portal journalist Nenad Živković.