Threats directed against Anita Đukić, editor of local Jagodina-based portal Infocentral and correspondent of national television companies TV Prva and TV O2, have led to a suspended sentenced for Jagodina local Jovan Grujić.

Courageous, critical, responsible journalism has been declining for years, attacked from all sides - by the authorities, tycoons and criminals. Journalists are threatened on a daily basis, humiliated and insulted, and when that's not enough they're beaten or their homes are burned to the ground.

The Higher Court in Belgrade has convicted a 36-year-old man from the eastern Serbian town of Majdanpek, issuing a suspended prison sentence for issuing threats via social network Twitter against TV Prva journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski and her daughter.

Local broadcaster Television Pančevo screened a pasquinade against pancevo.city portal journalist Nenad Živković. In this broadcast, an anonymous author insulted the journalist, dubbing him a “scummy”, “separatist”, “classic liar” and “idler” who “spits on his own people” and is an “advocate for violence” etc.

A 70-year-old man who sent a letter in early February to cable television channel N1 threatening that its journalists and their families would be harmed, and that this TV company's building would be blown to smithereens, has been charged with three criminal charges related to jeopardising security.

Serbia has lost its status as a free country and now finds itself among partially free countries, due to the ever-worsening conditions under which elections are being conducted, but also as a result of attacks on independent journalists, according to the latest report of U.S.-based organisation Freedom House, entitled “Freedom in the World 2019”.

The prosecutor in the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija has sought that those accused of this murder be sentenced to a maximum sentence of 40 years. The defenders of the accused, meanwhile, requested that all four suspects be acquitted.

Eight national newspapers in Serbia violated the Code of Journalists as many as 3,615 times during the period from August to the end of December 2018, according to monitoring conducted by experts of the Press Council, journalists Tamara Skrozza and Petar Jeremić.

The Interior Ministry of Serbia has confirmed the arrest of the person who attempted to break into the flat of journalist Milan Jovanović on 30th December last year, but they emphasised that this break-in was not directed against the journalist, nor is it connected with the arson attack on that journalist's house.

Several media and journalists' associations, which comprise the Media Coalition, have announced the suspending of the dialogue with the Serbian Government's Coordination Body for Cooperation with the Media, due to this government body having failed to meet any of the demands of journalists' and media associations, while the situation on the media scene simultaneously worsens from day to day.

An unknown assailant (or assailants) attempted to break into the apartment that recently became the residence of Milan Jovanović, the journalist of local news portal zig.info whose house in the Belgrade suburb of Vrčin was set on fire on 12th December.

A Serbian man has been arrested, while a warrant has been issued for the arrest of another man, a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on suspicion that they threatened journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski via Twitter.

Three and a half years after the launch of the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of daily newspapers Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin, trial proceedings have been completed and closing arguments have commenced.

A Serbian man has been arrested, while a warrant has been issued for the arrest of another man, a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on suspicion that they threatened journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski via Twitter.