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The Coalition for Media Freedom, consisting of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia, the Association of Media, the Local Press Association, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, the Independent Journalists' Society of Serbia, the Association of Online Media, and the NGO KUM Independence, warns that the rhetoric involving the targeting of media from the highest levels of government is increasingly being reflected in local communities, thereby directly jeopardizing the safety of local journalists.

Journalist of Danas, Uglješa Bokić, was interrogated today at the police station in the Novi Naselje area of Novi Sad at the request of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office. In his statement to the police, he did not wish to disclose his sources. The prosecutor ordered the interrogation due to the publication of portions of a police official report on the Danas portal, related to the arrest of Novi Sad lawyer Nemanja Aleksić in early April of this year.

Editors and journalists of domestic media are aware of the enormous impact that artificial intelligence has on journalism, but at the same time, they believe that it cannot replace journalists, but can only serve as a useful assistant. The vast majority have already used artificial intelligence tools, primarily for performing routine journalistic tasks, significantly less often for producing media content, and the least for distributing content to the audience. They recognize unreliability as the biggest problem in using this technology, typically do not have internal guidelines for its use, and due to transparency, they predominantly support the idea of labeling content that has been created with the help of artificial intelligence.

The Director for Legal Affairs of the Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), attorney Veljko Milić, stated this evening that it is "tragicomic" that the prosecutor's office is suing tabloids instead of initiating an investigation into the ways in which media in Serbia are financed.

The Parliamentary Committee for Culture and Information adopted the candidacies of Ištvan Bodžoni and Sreten Jovanović for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) from the ranks of national minorities at today’s session.

Due to the statement of a nine-year-old boy from the protest in Novi Sad, broadcasted on TV N1, a campaign was launched by all pro-regime media, while politicians in power took turns condemning the situation, similar to the reactions following the child's statement about students in the program "Important Issues" on RTS. The lawsuit against N1 has also reached regulators in Luxembourg, but ALIA concluded that N1's reporting did not violate the child's dignity, stating that "nothing in the content humiliates the child," and that he was "allowed to express himself with the consent of his parents."

The latest BIRN report on the violation of digital rights of citizens in Serbia shows that there were 10 percent more cases recorded last year, which is interpreted as a consequence of a more repressive system of government.

In light of the increasingly frequent attacks, threats, and pressures faced by journalists and other media workers, both at the local level and across the entire country, the Media and Reform Center Niš has developed a special handbook to assist colleagues in identifying the issues that arise during their journalistic work and to point out whom they can contact to protect their rights.

The Integrity Network calls on the relevant institutions in Serbia to immediately cease practices that represent unacceptable pressure on journalists and threaten media freedom, following the summons of Uglješa Bokić, a journalist for the Danas newspaper, to a police interrogation with a demand to disclose his source of information and a threat of forced appearance if he does not comply. The reason for this is Bokić's article published on the Danas portal in April 2025 concerning the police's actions in a specific criminal case of public interest.