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"I started looking over my shoulder on the street and avoiding going out after dark. My son was six years old at the time, and it was difficult to explain to him why the police visited us every day. He would go out to play in front of our building, and I would watch him, thinking that if someone really wanted to harm us, they could do so by hurting my child. I reduced both my outings and his, limiting our life to only what was absolutely necessary. The fear grew in me and in my entire family. As time went on, it became increasingly difficult – not just for me, but for my loved ones as well."

One of the key locations for nearly all protests and demonstrations over the last thirty years has been Radio Television of Serbia. Detested in the 1990s as the main tool of regime propaganda, in the years following the October 5 changes, it made certain staffing and programming efforts to establish trust with viewers and listeners. However, a few months ago, due to dissatisfaction with its reporting, students blocked it, an action that did not occur even during the rule of Slobodan Milošević when it was considered the "TV Bastille."

Veteran media professional and entrepreneur Atila Kovač has been elected as the new president of the Board of Directors of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV).

The announced amendments to the Criminal Code are aimed at suppressing protests and an attempt to preserve the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in power, as well as an attempt to prevent journalists from investigating crime and corruption, assess KRIK's interlocutors. Investigative journalists are particularly threatened by the changes related to the recording of conversations, as well as the introduction of a new criminal offense for revealing information, points out attorney Kruna Savović.

On September 30, 2025, at least four journalists in Serbia were targeted by anonymous printed leaflets that were distributed in private mailboxes and public places in Belgrade and other cities. Given the increasing number of reported cases across the country, there are suspicions that this coordinated defamation campaign is of significant scale. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), along with their member organizations in Serbia (GS KUM Nezavisnost, NUNS, UNS, and SINOS), are calling on the authorities to urgently and thoroughly investigate these threats, identify, apprehend, and sanction the perpetrators.

Radio Television of Serbia has announced a competition for the appointment of the Director and Chief Editor of the First Program of Radio Belgrade, both positions for a term of four years.

The expert analysis by the OSCE largely aligns with what representatives of civil society asserted during discussions with the ruling majority before leaving the previous meeting of the parliamentary committee, where candidates for the REM Council were discussed.

Radio Television of Serbia and Radio Television of Vojvodina will most likely not receive new Programming Councils within the legal timeframe, and consequently, neither will they have Commissioners for the protection of the rights of listeners, viewers, and readers, as stipulated by the latest Law on Public Media Services.

Hybrid attacks on journalists and media are most commonly used - targeting, insults, threats, disturbing messages, physical attacks, and groundless lawsuits that cause significant damage to the media. Such baseless lawsuits consume a lot of time for journalists and editors running the media, said Veran Matić, President of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and a member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, while appearing on Nova S television program.