Swift investigation needed alongside reduction in hostilities against media
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25. jun 2020.
IPI condemns beating of journalist and threats of violence during Serbian election
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19. jun 2020.
The Castle: How Serbia’s Rulers Manipulate Minds and the People Pay
Serbian taxpayers are unwittingly paying for an army of bots to promote the country’s ruling party and denigrate its rivals.
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15. jun 2020.
Journalist’s phone confiscated after she took pictures of President Vučić’s son
An unknown man confiscated the mobile phone of Bojana Pavlović, a journalist of investigative journalism portal KRIK, after she took photographs of Danilo Vučić, the son of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, in a Belgrade cafe-bar where he was in the company of famous hooligan Aleksandar Vidojević, whom she'd already written about.
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15. jun 2020.
Nineteen years without progress in investigation into the murder of journalist Milan Pantić
The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists has again requested that the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime take over responsibility for the case of the murder of journalist Milan Pantić, a correspondent of national daily newspaper Večernji novosti from the city of Jagodina, which occurred on 11th June 2001.
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15. jun 2020.
Trial for arson attack on journalist’s home turned into mocking of victims
At the trial for the December 2018 arson attack on the house of journalist Milan Jovanović, the lawyers of the main defendant, Dragoljub Simonovic, a former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka and a senior official of the ruling SNS party, questioned the journalist's wife Jela Deljanin in detail about the night the house burned down, but also about every item of furniture that she reported as being damaged in the fire.
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11. jun 2020.
Fresh investigation needed into murder of Serbian journalist Milan Pantić
IPI backs latest call for Special Prosecutor's Office to take over case
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10. jun 2020.
It is the safest “job” to kill a journalist
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.