Journalist safety

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Yellow press vest in hands painted in red, people in the background

Safety of journalists

14.July 2026 A.M.

ANEM: In the first half of the year, 45 percent more cases were filed due to attacks on journalists

Despite the increase in the number of reported attacks, in most cases there is no judicial epilogue. ANEM warns of almost complete impunity for violence against journalists

Attacks on journalists

16.February 2026. Katarina Stevanović

Attack on "Vremena" correspondent in Surdulica: "The environment was absolutely hostile towards me"

Instead of interlocutors - threats, instead of answers - insults. Journalist Dejana Cvetković says that while reporting from the protest in Surdulica for Vreme, she was exposed to open attacks from the crowd and comments with sexual connotations.

Interview: Veran Matić

10.September 2025 Filip Mirilović

Protection of female journalists comes first

"Hate speech is a criminal offense if it is directed at a person who advocates for human rights, but not if it is directed at journalists. To conclude - the existing legal framework gives too much space for an arbitrary and ill-intentioned interpretation of the law, which results in those who harm or intimidate journalists not being held accountable."

Interview: Kruna Savović

28.August 2025 Stevan Ristic

Misogyny, everyday life

"I would like to be able to list three key things that institutions, media associations and journalists could do when it comes to security, because that would mean that they are, as it should be, on the same side. Considering that, unfortunately, our case is not like that, the recommendation to journalist associations is to do everything they do even better, and journalists to beware - such are the times"

The presence of a special unit of the KP during the Mitrovica Days and a concert on the alternative stage of the Mitrovica International Jazz Days in North Mitrovica, which is normally held in South Mitrovica

Kosovo

27.August 2025 Milica Srejić

Long pipes and poor translation: What does reporting from the field in Kosovo look like?

For Serbian journalists in Kosovo, even a basketball tournament or a harmless festival become a challenge. Long pipes can appear everywhere. And everyone - including the institutions - often speaks only in Albanian, so who understands

Attacks on journalists

11.July 2025 KS

ANEM: 20 years after he was attacked by a policeman, a journalist is still paying court fees

The Association of Independent Electronic Media has called on the Chamber of Public Bailiffs to supervise the work of the public bailiff in charge of the case of journalist Vladimir Mitrić, who for 15 years has not been able to collect obligations from the former policeman who attacked him, for which there are four final judgments

Three decades of NUNS work

26.march 2024 Milica Srejić

For the last ten years, media freedom has been in free fall

"We try to fill out some forms on paper, in practice journalists do not feel safer, independent media have worse conditions for survival and the pluralism of media content is more threatened than before," NUNS General Secretary Tamara FIlipović told "Vreme"

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade will begin considering the appeal of those convicted of setting fire to the house of Žig info portal journalist Milan Jovanović.

Burning of a journalist's house Žig info

26.march 2024 MS (Today)

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade is considering the appeals of the convicted today

The Court of Appeal in Belgrade set two days for the hearing of the appeal, after which it should issue a final verdict for the burning of the house of journalist Milan Jovanović of the Žig info portal. Dragoljub Simonović, the former president of the Belgrade Municipality of Grocka, is among those convicted

Safety of journalists

14.march 2024 MS

ANEM launches the "Threat is a threat" campaign

The aim of this campaign is to point out that for many years, numerous media workers throughout Serbia have been receiving threats, solely because they do their work professionally, objectively and impartially. The largest number of threats are formulated in such a way that the Criminal Code cannot recognize them as such, as a result of which they cannot even be prosecuted

Criminal

11.April 2023. S. Z

Veran Matić: MUP and BIA messed up in the case of the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija

On the anniversary of the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, the president of the Commission for Investigating the Murder of Journalists, Veran Matić, told RTS that he hopes this is the last commemoration without a final verdict for the perpetrators. On this occasion, he invited citizens to join the march of journalists under the slogan "Truth is our victory". The gathering is at 18 p.m. at the Kolarac restaurant in Knez Mihailova

Chronicle

02.January 2023 MN

Attacked FoNet reporter: What can the police (not) do

When the president of Serbia calls journalists who do their journalistic work "locators" and "foreign mercenaries" who work for the head of Serbia, it is no wonder that thugs take it upon themselves to deal with them physically. And when the rule of law doesn't work, it's no surprise when hired thugs don't do what they're told by police officers trying to do their job.