Attacks on journalists

Regime media

06.February 2026. KS

Orchestrated attacks on Veran Matić: "Hell is coming"

How and why is the government brutally targeting Veran Matić through films and newly established media. "It's a pattern. Hell is coming," the president of ANEM's Board of Directors told "Vreme".

Two journalists with gas masks and helmets

Mediji

02.January 2026. KS

Deadly year for media: How many journalists were killed worldwide in 2025?

The past year was exceptionally deadly for journalism - 128 journalists and media workers were killed around the world

journalists

22.December 2025. Bojan Bednar

Attacks on professional journalists: An almost unpunished sport of the progressive regime

According to data from the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, four times more physical attacks on journalists were reported in 2025 than in 2024. Verbal attacks are almost daily. How to protect yourself, when the repressive regime does not think of protecting those who criticize it

Vuk Raonic, assistant to the mayor of Novi Sad, Žarko Mićin, was recognized by journalists as the attacker of Juronjuz Srbija cameraman Mirko Todorović.

Promotion

16.December 2025. B. B.

Novi Sad SNS career: From the attack on the cameraman, to the mayor's assistant

Vuk Raonic was recognized by journalists as the attacker of Juronjuz Srbija cameraman Mirko Todorović. The prosecutor's office dismissed the criminal charges against him, and for his "activities" he was awarded the post of assistant mayor of Novi Sad.

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

Attacks on journalists

11.December 2025. Filip Mirilović

Attacks on journalists: Half of them were carried out by police officers

The crisis reporting from the student and other protests that began in November last year exposed all the readiness of the regime to respond to the work of journalists with physical force and pressure.

Attacks on journalists

23.November 2025. KS

"Solidarity is more important today than ever": Rally in support of the N1 team

After the attack on the N1 team near Ćaciland, journalists' associations are organizing a support rally on Monday, November 24, from 19 p.m.

Interview: Ivana Stevanović

19.November 2025. Stevan Ristic

Systemic reckoning of the regime with critical journalists

"It is necessary that the campaigns led by high-ranking state officials against journalists stop without delay. Their current behavior not only gives the 'green light' to institutions to turn a blind eye to endangering the safety of journalists, but also represents an open threat to those within that system who would try to protect them."

Interview: Veljko Milić

19.November 2025. Filip Mirilović

Bullies consider female journalists easier targets

"The situation of male and female journalists has significantly worsened... It is indicative that they are exposed mainly to attacks and excessive use of force by the police. Unfortunately, the police still do not understand that their role at public gatherings is not to prevent journalists from reporting, but on the contrary - to provide safe conditions so that journalists can work."

Safety of journalists at the local level

01.October 2025. Jovana Đurđić

The case of Sonja Kamenković

"I began to look around the street and avoid going out after dark. My son was six years old at the time and it was difficult to explain to him why the police were visiting us every day. He went out to play in front of the building, and I watched him and thought that if someone really wanted to harm me, they could do it by harming my child. I reduced both my and his going out and reduced our life to only what was absolutely necessary. The fear grew and with me and with the whole family. As time went on, it was more and more difficult - not only for me, but also for my loved ones."

Attacks on journalists

23.September 2025. TS

ANEM: Siniša Vučinić targets and insults journalists and the media

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) condemns the verbal attacks of SNS Main Board member Sinisa Vučinić on the media and journalists, including the editor-in-chief of "Vremen" Filip Švarm

Media image of Serbia

10.September 2025. Filip Mirilović

Permanent working group for the safety of journalists

The president of the High Council of the Prosecutor's Office and member of the SRG, Branko Stamenković, tells "Vreme" that there have been several achievements of the Permanent Working Group since its establishment until today. First of all, he explains, he would single out "building an understanding of the problems that journalists face in their work", which concern possible criminal protection. He adds that it was extremely important for them, as prosecutors, to look at and understand as many circumstances and facts as possible regarding the safety of journalists and to propose more concrete measures after that.

Mediji

09.September 2025. Jelena Petkovic

The worst year for the safety of journalists in Serbia

With an absolute amnesty for crimes against citizens and journalists, Serbia experienced a complete collapse of the rule of law and the end of the legal system. A country where not a single murder of a journalist has been solved or punished, where killers still walk free, today records the worst year in terms of journalist safety

Attacks on journalists

05.September 2025. IN THE

NUNS: Record number of attacks on journalists in August - 46 incidents in one month

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia announced that 46 incidents against media workers were recorded in August, the most since the beginning of the year. Police attacks during protests are particularly worrying

Interview: Ana Novaković

03.September 2025. Filip Mirilović

I work in the service of the public interest, not the government

"Imagine that the man, Stan Miller, who is a hundred meters away from me and who is the main actor of the story that disturbed the public and the employees of the United Media media, will not come out to talk to the journalist, whose employer he is indirectly, but sends a lawyer to warn her that she may be fired. I could only conclude one thing - that Miller is afraid and that it is true that, at the request of Vučić, he tried to weaken and divide the media within United Media"

NUNS

20.August 2025. IN THE

NUNS: Inadmissible attacks on journalists, police beat reporters in Novi Sad

During the protest in front of the Novi Sad court, the police beat journalists, while at the same time death threats to journalists and newsrooms continue, NUNS warned.

ANEM alarm

15.August 2025. Veran Matić

A new level of violence against journalists

The beaters of the Serbian Progressive Party attack journalists on the ground, and the police again do not react. The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns this and calls on the competent authorities to urgently identify and sanction the attackers of media representatives in the center of Belgrade

Attacks on journalists

12.August 2025. IN THE

NUNS and ANEM: Urgently prosecute the threats to Danas and the attack on the FoNet reporter

A day after the publication of Koraksić's caricature of President Vučić, the editorial office of the newspaper "Danas" received a bomb threat, while photojournalist Marko Dragoslavić was physically attacked while working in the field

Interview: prof. Aleksandra Krstić

24.July 2025 Jovana Đurđić

Threatened, attacked, underpaid

"Many female journalists stopped reporting attacks and threats because they realized that the institutions were not doing their job. This process does not only mean waiting for months, but also facing again those who insulted, attacked, threatened them... In a country where journalists are killed and the cases are never resolved, where even the most influential journalists are threatened, it is natural that my students in the audience ask: 'Will this happen and to me?'”

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

Punctured tires on the Vremena reporter's car

NUNS

09.June 2025 B. B.

NUNS: Alarming attack on property of "Vremena" journalist

Two tires and broken rear-view mirrors were punctured on the car of Tijana Stanić, journalist of the weekly "Vreme". The incident occurred after a journalist team documented suspicious activities in the yard of a local company marked as a site of irregularities in the election process.

Elections in Kosjerić

30.May 2025. TS

Kosjerić: The former policeman and member of SNS hit both the cameraman and the opposition member

Kosjerić is under siege by the authorities. Tensions are rising day by day. After the attack on the journalist, an attack on the opposition activist followed. Both victims claim that the attacker is a former policeman who is a member of SNS

Mediji

17.November 2024. B. B.

Minister Ristić praised the reduced number of cases of endangering the safety of journalists

Minister of Information and Telecommunications Dejan Ristic pointed out that his team has demonstrated its readiness to resist phenomena in the field of public information that threaten the smooth work of journalists.

Continued pressure

08.August 2024. IN THE

Black statistics: Since the beginning of the year, 84 attacks on journalists have been recorded

Many pressures on independent media, especially on the local media, remain unrecorded because journalists do not see that competent institutions adequately punish perpetrators of acts to the detriment of journalists, NUNS points out.

Attacks on journalists

06.July 2024 IN THE

The minister claims that the number of cases of harassment of journalists has decreased in Serbia - is that true?

Stating that 74 journalist associations operate in Serbia and there are 2.000 registered media, Ristić said that it is important to identify difficulties so that they can be eliminated and to foster dialogue. However, despite the statistics and assurances of the relevant minister, insults, intimidation, threats and even physical attacks on journalists in Serbia continue and do not stop.

Mediji

28.March 2024. DW

Since the beginning of the year, 50 attacks on journalists have been recorded in Serbia

Insults, intimidation, threats, and even physical attacks on journalists in Serbia do not stop. They are the target of attacks because of reporting, expressing opinions and attitudes, but sometimes also just because they are journalists

Mediji

01.August 2023. BG

Who organizes the hunt against journalists?

Journalist Slobodan Georgiev says that Aleksandar Vučić is the one who commissioned the videos against independent journalists. Vučić has no idea what this is all about and is looking for evidence

Politics

01.June 2023 BG

Parliament of Serbia: Unfounded accusations of progressives against N1 and Nova S

Attacks by members of the Serbian Progressive Party on these media have been going on for days. They are accused of creating an atmosphere for civil war