30. 04. 2004

Serbian journalists on subsistence pay

BELGRADE, April 30, 2004 – Thousands of Serbian journalists are working without social security insurance and without contracts, the Independent Association of Serbian Journalists said today. In a statement timed for World Press Freedom Day on Monday, the association said that journalists are on subsistence level wages. “Journalists are not safe in this country, many have been threatened, and they waste time and energy in courts because prosecution of journalists and the media has continued,” said the organisation. The statement cited about three hundred court cases now under way against journalists and media, adding that journalism in Serbia had taken months to recover from the heavy censorship imposed last year following the assassination of prime minister Zoran Djindjic.