More than 90 percent of the cases in world statistics say that the murder of a journalist is not solved, the murder is not punished, perpetrator is not brought to justice... Somehow, it turns out that killing a journalist is the cheapest form of censorship.
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31. maj 2020.
July to see appeals against verdict for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija
Next month will see the Appellate Court in Belgrade launch the process of considering appeals against the first-instance verdict for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija.
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31. maj 2020.
Charge against unknown person for harassing TV N1 journalist
A criminal charge has been filed with the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against an as-yet-unnamed person due to the harassing of TV N1 journalist Dušan Mlađenović.
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31. maj 2020.
Television company sued for insulting local journalist claims in its defence that it was telling the truth
Nenad Živković, a journalist of local Pančevo-based portal 'Pancevo.city', has filed a second lawsuit against Radio-Television Pančevo and its chief editor Jasmina Petković, this time for a series of featuees aired on this television channel in which he was dubbed a “student spy” and “an agent for Ustasha confrontations with Serbia”.
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15. maj 2020.
Journalists targetted by death threats and insults, but also politicians’ caustic comments
Jovana Gligorijević, assistant editor-in-chief of weekly news magazine Vreme, has been threatened via Instagram by an unknown individual, who described her as: “Human waste and the dregs of society” warning that “payment day is near”, which the journalist reported to the prosecution service.
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15. maj 2020.
Ruling party MPs reported for illegally leading TV show
The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation has filed a complaint with the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media, REM, against cable channel TV Kopernikus in response to its broadcasting of a show authored by MP and ruling Serbian Progressive Party official Vladimir Đukanović.
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15. maj 2020.
Critical Freedom House report criticised
A Freedom House report has criticised the state of media freedom in Serbia, with the Serbian Government responding by criticising the report of Freedom House.
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14. maj 2020.
Serbia: Coronavirus and the media
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.