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In light of the increasingly frequent attacks and pressures faced by journalists in recent times, such as the recent case of media targeting of Veran Matić, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Milan Antonijević, issued a "public warning" stating that the work performed by journalists and differences in opinions, editorial policies, and reporting methods can never justify discrimination, harassment, threats, or any form of violence, as this endangers both freedom of expression and the right to information.

Near the National Assembly and the tent settlement known as Ćacilend, at least 35 attacks on journalists have been recorded since March 2025, according to data from the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia. Of these, 11 cases have been brought before the prosecutor's office. CINS has analyzed these cases and has succeeded in identifying some of those who have clashed with journalists, individuals who have not been known to the public until now.

The Management Board of the Public Media Institution Radio-Television of Serbia appointed Dragan Bujošević as the acting general director of RTS at today’s regular meeting, it was announced after the meeting.

The documentary TV channel available to users of Telekom Serbia's cable television has been broadcasting its program since November of last year. However, it is not officially registered in the Media Register at the Business Registers Agency (APR), is not listed in the licensing database of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM), and does not have the legally required Impressum on its website.

The authors of the documentary revealing the great betrayal by Veran Matić overlooked one detail. When he first arrived in Kosovo after the war, he expressed the desire to lay flowers at the graves of Fehmi Agani and Bajram Kelmendi, as well as his sons, Kastriot and Kuštrim. He laid flowers at the cemetery, bowing as a man to a man, as a Serb to an Albanian killed in the name of alleged Serbian nationalism, as a co-activist for freedom, as a personal liberation.

We strongly condemn the targeting and endangerment of the safety of prominent journalist, president of ANEM, and member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, Veran Matić, following the broadcast of the propaganda film "Evil Era 2" on state-controlled television.

Following the ruling of the Supreme Court, which established that the Appeals Court violated the law by committing significant procedural breaches in favor of the defendants in the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, resulting in their acquittal, Jelena Ćuruvija submitted an initiative to the Constitutional Court of Serbia to initiate a procedure for assessing the constitutionality of the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC). At the same time, disciplinary complaints were filed with the disciplinary prosecutor of the High Judicial Council against three judges who participated in rendering the acquitting ruling of the Appeals Court in the Ćuruvija case, due to the suspicion that they acted carelessly in their judicial functions.

Televisions with national frequencies B92 and Prva, along with the cable television Informer, aired a documentary film about Veran Matić during prime evening slots. Matić assesses in Danas that the film presents an open call for lynching and continues the pattern of persecution of journalists that dates back to the 1990s.

Journalistic and media associations that are members of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG) are alarmed and disturbed by the airing of the propaganda film "Evil Era 2," which publicly initiates a hunt for Veran Matić and suggests that a reckoning with him is permitted and desirable.