Announcements

The number of threats to female and male journalists in Serbia is increasing daily. Two cases of threats were reported yesterday to the Safe Line of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM), specifically the SOS phone for reporting threats and violence against journalists (0800 100 115).

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) considers the distribution of publications across Belgrade municipalities that target and present the most severe insults towards journalists, activists, and politicians to be concerning and dangerous.

The journalist of Glas Zaječara, Miljko Stojanović, is once again the target of threats and targeting on social media due to his journalistic work. On the Facebook page "Zaječarski blok," which was established before the elections in this city to target, falsely accuse, and insult anyone who does not support the ruling party, a video was posted yesterday that targets Miljko Stojanović with dangerous falsehoods and very offensive and perilous comments.

Student Luka Pešić is reporting as a freelance journalist for the student pages of the faculty in blockade, with a press accreditation from the Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia. After the protests concluded on Sunday evening , he was unjustly pursued first by unidentified individuals, and then by police officers equipped for breaking up demonstrations. They violently threw him to the ground while attempting to seize his phone, which he managed to pass to friends, who shouted to the police that Luka had press accreditation. 

The weekly publication *Radar* published on November 21, 2024, an article by prominent journalist Vuk Cvijić about the "collapse of Serbia's electricity system," based on facts presented by a competent source, Doctor of Electrical Engineering Bojan Ivanović, who has been working for 26 years at the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS), the Serbian Electric Power Grid (EMS), and Electric Distribution (EDS).

The student editorial team "Blokada Info" has still not received all the equipment that was confiscated from them on September 5 of this year at the Rectorate in Novi Sad, when the police, along with the rector, entered the premises and held students and citizens confined for several hours.

Member of the Main Board of the largest ruling party SNS, Siniša Vučinić, after recently announcing on Informer the murder of student P. C., has now posted a message on social media spreading hate speech and targeting and insulting citizens who are protesting, as well as journalists and the media.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the endangerment of the safety of student and activist P.C. by Siniša Vučinić on TV Informer, who made a disturbing announcement about a potential murder. Although Vučinić later apologized and stated that he mentioned it only hypothetically, this does not justify the publicly spoken word and intimidation, and it is unacceptable to mention names and target individuals in such a context.

Smiljana Milinkov, a journalism professor and head of the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, has received a death threat. A message arrived at the official address of the faculty: "The Black Hand has marked you."