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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dušan Ostojić, a civic activist and editor of the portal aleksinac.net from Aleksinac, a town near Niš, said after his car was recently firebombed that he would almost certainly give up journalism, which he deals with as a hobby, because the message he received in the form of the burning of his car was completely clear to him.

The Belgrade Appellate Court has rejected an appeal submitted by the Office of the Prosecutor for Organised Crime calling for Ratko Romić and Milan Radonjić, both convicted in the first instance of murdering journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, to be remanded into prison instead of remaining under house arrest, with them now having been detained at home for almost two years.

Serbia has not achieved progress on freedom of expression, although it is to some extent prepared for the EU in this area, and this lack of progress is now causing serious concerns, according to the European Commission's annual report for 2019 on Serbia's progress on the road to the EU.

After meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, the owner of Novi Sad-based television company Channel 9, Maja Pavlović, broke her hunger strike after 23 days, despite the fact that all of her demands have not been met.

Journalists Tamara Skrozza, Antonela Riha and Vukašin Obradović, together with civil activist Ilir Gaši, filed a petition with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in response to the witch hunt campaign against them in media companies that are particularly pro-government – TV Pink and tabloid newspaper Informer.

On World Press Freedom Day, at the address of the firebombed house in Vrcin of Žig info portal  journalist Milan Jovanovic, a lawsuit arrived that had been filed by former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka, Dragoljub Simonović, who was himself charged with ordering last December's burning of Jovanović's house.

The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation has organised an exhibition entitled “Journalism. Here. Now”, which presents images authored by Belgrade-based photographer Marko Risović shot during work on photo-audio stories about four journalists who engage in critical journalism in their areas, despite being subjected to pressures, attacks and insults.