Announcements

The editorial office of the FAR portal from Dimitrovgrad reported a threat that was made via a phone call on October 11 to the portal's journalist Sergej Ivanov by D.V. According to Ivanov, during the conversation, D.V. said: "...those who write lies about me could have something happen to them..."

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the behavior of the police towards the A1 portal team in Novi Pazar on Saturday evening and once again calls on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ensure that all journalists are allowed to carry out their work in the field without hindrance.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the behavior of the police towards media representatives who were attempting to report from the protests of supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in several cities across Serbia. It calls on the Ministry of Internal Affairs to urgently ensure that all journalists can carry out their work without obstruction.

The Central Election Commission of Kosovo (CEC) has announced that accreditation for monitoring the local elections in Kosovo, which will be held on October 12, has been granted to 29 local and 13 international media outlets, with a total of 573 representatives. There are no media outlets reporting in Serbian on the list of accredited media.

The journalist of the newspaper Danas, Vojin Radovanović, received a threatening message with identical content from the same account that had previously sent threats to Smiljana Milinkov, the head of the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, as well as to at least two other professors, one journalist, and one political activist.

The number of threats to female and male journalists in Serbia is increasing daily. Two cases of threats were reported yesterday to the Safe Line of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), specifically the SOS phone for reporting threats and violence against journalists (0800 100 115).

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) considers the distribution of publications across Belgrade municipalities that target and present the most severe insults towards journalists, activists, and politicians to be concerning and dangerous.

The journalist of Glas Zaječara, Miljko Stojanović, is once again the target of threats and targeting on social media due to his journalistic work. On the Facebook page "Zaječarski blok," which was established before the elections in this city to target, falsely accuse, and insult anyone who does not support the ruling party, a video was posted yesterday that targets Miljko Stojanović with dangerous falsehoods and very offensive and perilous comments.

Student Luka Pešić is reporting as a freelance journalist for the student pages of the faculty in blockade, with a press accreditation from the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia. After the protests concluded on Sunday evening , he was unjustly pursued first by unidentified individuals, and then by police officers equipped for breaking up demonstrations. They violently threw him to the ground while attempting to seize his phone, which he managed to pass to friends, who shouted to the police that Luka had press accreditation.