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The trial of Dragoljub Simonović, former president of the Belgrade suburban municipality of Grocka, who is charged with ordering last December's arson attack on the house of Žig info portal journalist Milan Jovanović, has been postponed until 24th May, after Simonović and his lawyer failed to appear in court.
After a smear campaign lasting several months that's been led, amongst others, against anti-regime journalists, the Facebook page “Serbia our country” has finally become the subject of interest from the Special Prosecutor's Office for High-Tech Crime in Belgrade.
Harlem Désir, a current OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, speaks for Cenzolovka about frequent attacks on journalists and about OSCE’s work on improving the media situation in Serbia
A Belgrade court today convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of the mass-circulation Dnevni Telegraf, Serbia's first private daily, and the weekly magazine Evropljanin, independent regional news website Balkan Insight reported. Ćuruvija, 51, was shot and killed on April 11, 1999, outside his home near the Yugoslav Parliament building.
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today’s court decision to convict the perpetrators responsible for killing one of the most prominent and critical journalists in Serbia,Slavko Ćuruvija.
The verdict in the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija will be presented on Friday 5th April (not on 10th April, which we previously reported due to a technical error in the court's call).
Jugoslav Ćosić, director of independent television company N1, has received threats, along with other journalists of this broadcaster, dubbing them “foreign mercenaries”, “traitors to the country” or “a media branch of America's CIA”.
During the citizen protests dubbed “1 of 5 million”, which have been continuing for more than three and a half months, a section of protestors managed to breach building security and enter the Belgrade offices and studio of national public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia. Leaders of opposition parties, who also entered the building, demanded that RTS allow them to address citizens over the airwaves.
Dr. Michelle Ferrier, the Dean of the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida, and the founder of TrollBusters.com, a platform that provides help to female journalists in distress, speaks about impacts that online thretes may have on journalists and to free and objective reporting.
The judge presiding over the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija has announced that she will announce the verdict on April 5.
Police have approved protection for journalist Milan Jovanović just a few days after the individual suspected of firebombing his house was released from custody.
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.
Cable TV news channel 'Television N1', known for its critical reporting of the Serbian authorities, recently received a letter stating that the journalists of this media house would suffer and that the building would be blown up. Following the reactions of international and local journalists' associations, and condemnations arriving from state officials, including Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, police arrested and remanded into custody a suspect believed to have issued the threats.
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”.
Cable television channel Top has announced that in April it will relaunch broadcasts of formerly extremely popular show “Impression of the Week”, which was cancelled four and a half years ago by the then-B92 TV (now O2 TV).
A Belgrade court has ordered that Dragoljub Simonović, president of the Municipality of Grocka and a senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, be detained for 30 days on suspicion of ordering the arson attack on the house of Milan Jovanović, a journalist of local portal Žig info, on 12thDecember 2018. The detention order was made to ensure the suspect could not influence witnesses or destroy evidence, or again commit a crime.
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