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What if the dogs of war kill you and then fake it as if you had committed suicide? What if a dirty machine was used to cast a shadow over your truthful articles to prove that something was mentally wrong with you? It would stick. You are a woman. What if the blood-thirsty hellhounds of the past, so alive among us, set up a scenario where the only outcome is that the investigation of your death becomes obsolete by the passage of time?
On 3 June 2025, the EFJ General Assembly adopted a resolution expressing deep concern over the increasing number of attacks, threats, and pressure on journalists in Serbia. The resolution was proposed by the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS) and the Trade Union of Culture, Arts, and Media “Nezavisnost.”
What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement.
Amendments to laws concerning journalism have been expected for years. Working groups, inclusive, were formed. Then, they were disbanded, and the ministry wrote its own versions of the changes. Afterwards, the ministry invited representatives of journalists' associations and media associations to an urgent meeting, to agree with the ministry's visions. When asked by the members of the working groups, who wrote the texts of changes that are completely different from what was discussed at the working groups, they were answered that the proposals came from Brussels.
This article is part of a series published by IPI and written by expert guest contributors from across Europe on different threats facing media freedom and independent journalism. This article focuses on the recent increase of pressure and violence against journalists in Serbia amidst the government response to nationwide student-led protests. The views of the author do not necessarily reflect those of IPI.
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today shares alarming findings about the deteriorating state of press and media freedom in Serbia. The MFRR solidarity mission to Belgrade and Novi Sad, conducted on 7-9 April, alongside ongoing monitoring, revealed a state of emergency – one that demands urgent attention and action from national authorities and the EU.
In just one day, a series of dangerous attacks on journalists and the media took place, which will increasingly characterize the life of journalists in Serbia. In the daily repression in which we live and work, these are no longer isolated incidents but a rule that justifiably causes great concern.
Slavko Ćuruvija is back on trial. On the very day marking his death.
The authorities are pushing citizens to take justice into their own hands, trying to fight the evil that attacks them, deems Ivana Stevanovic of the "Slavko Ćuruvija" Foundation. This also applies to the regime media, she added, which "we can no longer even call media, because they have become a weapon."
Two journalists from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), an award-winning Serbian network of investigative journalists, were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware last month, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals.
The partner organisation of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) will conduct a mission to Serbia between 7-9 April to meet with journalists, media stakeholders and law enforcement authorities amidst a rapidly worsening media freedom crisis.
BIRN journalist Sasa Dragojlo was assaulted by a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party while covering a protest in Belgrade, but police refused to identify the assailant.
Responding to an N1 reporter’s question on whether a sound cannon was used against protesters during the March 15 protest in Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Brussels that “it was not used by anyone, anywhere.” He accused N1 of employing “tricks and deceptions” and “trying to extend the effects of a color revolution.”
Belgrade University political sciences students declared a regime tabloid their enemy following attacks on a student from Novi Pazar.
An editor at the state Radio Belgrade canceled her show in protest over the alleged use of a sound cannon at the March 15 protest in Belgrade, the Serbian Association of Journalists (UNS) said on Tuesday.
A number of local and international media freedom and journalists’ organizations reacted to the attempt to blockade N1 by activists of the Serbian ruling coalition's junior member party - Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin's Movement of Socialists.
Serbian police prevented several journalist teams from Croatia and Slovenia from entering the country on Friday evening.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic apologized to the public and the state TV (RTS) for calling an RTS journalist reporting on Saturday’s student protest in Nis an imbecile but implied that the public broadcaster’s reporters are not objective.
One of the NGOs raided on Tuesday as part of investigations into possible misuse of USAID funding said that pro-regime media knew about the raids before they happened.
The Belgrade police raided the offices of two democracy watchdog NGOs under warrants from anti-corruption prosecutors, the Serbian state TV (RTS) reported on Tuesday.
