Announcements

The Association of Independent Electronic Media strongly condemns the death threats and obstruction of the work of free journalist and cameraman Marko Dragoslavić and calls on the relevant authorities to respond without delay in this case of endangering the safety of media workers. Veran Matić, President of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), a member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, and operator of the Safe Line for Journalists 0800 100 115, has reported the case to the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office.

Veran Matić, the president of the Board of Directors of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), a member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, and the operator of the Safe Line for reporting threats and attacks on journalists at 0800 100 115, has reported bot attacks on the Instagram accounts of the media outlets Zoomer, Radar, Nova.rs, Nova S, and N1 to the Prosecutor's Office for High-Tech Crime.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) calls on the relevant authorities in the municipality of Žagubica to extend the deadline for the application of candidates for members of the commission for evaluating media projects for the year 2026, considering that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has not yet published even the preliminary scoring list of candidates eligible to apply for the commissions.

The President of the Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists, Veran Matić, stated that he welcomes the ruling of the Supreme Court of Serbia, which determined that there was a violation of the law in two of the most important segments of the indictment and during the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija – regarding the testimony of a key witness, who, according to the acquittal ruling of the Appellate Court, did not adhere to his previous statements during the trial, even though the trial records clearly indicate the opposite – that he remained consistent with his earlier statements. The same violation of the law was noted concerning the testimonies of four other witnesses.

The news team from N1 television was stopped at the entrance to Pioneer Park, next to the City Assembly building, by a "marshal," as he introduced himself, who has been identified on social media from previous similar violent incidents as M.S. (34) from Sombor. He is reported to have been convicted multiple times and to have spent some time in prison.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has published a report titled "Chronology of Attacks on Media Workers in the Area Between Pioneer Park and the National Assembly of Serbia," in order to document all cases of threats to the safety of journalists in the so-called tent settlement in this area in the center of Belgrade. The document also serves as a reminder of unresolved cases of interference with the work of media representatives during a specific time period in a confined space that represented a sort of "forbidden city" for critical and professional media.

The editorial office of the daily newspaper and portal Danas received a threat to set the editorial office on fire in the comments. In response to the news titled "The solution for NIS is only temporary: If the buyer ends up being MOL, Serbia faces a 'Croatian scenario,'" a threat was sent from the account "Brine" containing the following message: "How can you not be ashamed to gloat over the misfortune that has befallen us? WE NEED TO THROW EXPLOSIVES ON DANAS" (errors are in the original message).

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) will not respond to the Public Call of the Committee for Culture and Information, which is reinitiating the process for proposing candidates for four members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) calls on the relevant Ministry of Information and Telecommunications to investigate why the competitions for project co-financing of media content for the year 2025 have not yet been completed in five local governments – Preševo, Vrbas, Gadžin Han, Bujanovac, and Čačak – and how it is possible that the municipality of Surdulica has not announced any competition at all during this year.