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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.

It is not only a characteristic of the media landscape, but it may be the most obvious aspect: the more laws, by-laws, training sessions, round tables, consultations, analyses, and research there are – the worse the situation "on the ground" becomes. And this is certainly not just a matter of perception. For example, look at the European Commission's reports on Serbia's progress in the European integration process. These reports use diplomatic language and very cautiously and indirectly provide negative assessments. In fact, even when translated into Serbian, they require further clarification and translation so that the "ordinary citizen" can understand what kind of country we are living in, at least from the perspective of Brussels.

The Coalition for Media Freedom expresses solidarity and support for Veran Matić and other targeted colleagues and associates in the work "Evil Era 2: The Creation of Propaganda." 

The Center for the Development of Local Media most strongly condemns the openly propagandistic and politically motivated “film” produced by the Center for Social Stability, which has the sole purpose of publicly discrediting and targeting Veran Matić, the President of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

The Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV) strongly condemns the propaganda "film" produced by the regime's Center for Social Stability with the aim of publicly discrediting Veran Matić, the president of the Management Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM).

On national frequency televisions – Pink, B92, Prva, and Hepi, as well as the first two channels of Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) during 2025, a total of 5,047 violations related to the Advertising Law were recorded, according to reports from the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM).

At 11:52 AM on November 22, 2024 – exactly at the time when the canopy at the Novi Sad railway station killed 15 people three weeks earlier – a small number of citizens from Bečej gathered in the city center for the first "Stop, Serbia" rally. The silence of mourning under the cold November rain was abruptly interrupted by noise and insults from a group arriving from the direction of the Serbian Progressive Party offices.