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“Hate speech is a criminal offense if directed at individuals advocating for human rights, but not if it is aimed at journalists. To conclude – the existing legal framework provides too much room for arbitrary and malicious interpretation of the law, resulting in those who harm or intimidate journalists not being held accountable for their actions.”

The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has dismissed the report of an attack on Insider journalist Stefan Miljuš, who was physically assaulted by an unknown man on May 1 while reporting from a gathering at Nikola Pašić Square. Miljuš informed the public prosecutor of the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, Aleksandar Gavrić, who also conveyed to him that he has the right to appeal this decision.

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 to date. Firstly, he explains, he would highlight “building an understanding of the problems journalists face in their work,” which relate to potential criminal law protection. He adds that it has been extremely important for them, as prosecutors, to consider and understand as many circumstances and facts concerning journalists' safety as possible, and thereafter propose more concrete measures.

The new Unified Information System (UIS) of the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, through which media projects have been evaluated this year for project co-financing competitions, has caused a number of difficulties, agree most members of this year's project evaluation committees contacted by ANEM. Additionally, many of them highlight as a significant problem that certain candidates were members of a large number of committees, and they believe that this should be limited.

The portal InfoVranjske.rs has learned that Zoran Dimitrijević was interrogated yesterday at the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Vranje regarding the case "Attack on journalist Jelena Stojković."

The trial of the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation in the lawsuits filed by former officials and members of the State Security Service, Milan Radonjić, Ratko Romić, and Miroslav Kurak, has been postponed for the fourth time since the beginning of the year. The absence of Judge Ljiljana Ilić, who did not attend the previous two hearings due to illness, was not explained this time.

While waiting for the official confirmation regarding the outcome of the repeated privatization of Radio-Television Kragujevac, the city authorities, in silence and without explanation, are reducing the amount of funds for public information as planned in the budget for 2025. This comes just a few weeks after they approved an increase in subsidies for RTK. Instead of the 47.5 million dinars that were supposed to be allocated to the media through a public competition, only nearly four times less money—12.6 million dinars—has been designated for this purpose, while just over 11.4 million dinars remain unallocated.

The Werther effect, a term for the increase in suicides following media coverage of a single case, has been known for over two centuries, reminds the organization Journalists Against Violence.

“The situation is much worse, much more dangerous than before. Israel threatens to attack all of Gaza. They are planning the largest massacre that will occur if they proceed with the attack. And the largest massacre of journalists. I call on all journalists and warn that the Israeli occupation plans further genocide, further war crimes against Palestinian journalists, because they do not want anyone reporting on the next major attack on Gaza. We ask you to support us. We ask you to stand by your principles, for justice and humanity,” says Naser Abu Baker, President of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS).