Announcements

According to the records of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, in the first half of this year, 71 cases related to threats and attacks on female and male journalists were opened in the prosecutor's offices in Serbia. Of that number, 37 cases were opened in the Special Public Prosecutor's Office – Department for the Fight Against High-Tech Crime of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade.

At the police station in Aranđelovac, the editor of the media outlet eStvarnost, Dragan Todorović, made a statement regarding the criminal complaint filed by Đorđe Riznić, the secretary of the Assembly of the Municipality of Aranđelovac, for "false reporting."

The system of competitive co-financing of media content in Serbia increasingly loses its meaning and moves away from its fundamental purpose – as established by law – and the results of this year's competitions organized by the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications indicate that it has experienced a complete failure.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the vulgar language used in a message directed at the editor of the Žig Info portal by Bojan Pitulić, the assistant to the mayor of Grocka, who, by his position, should not exhibit such vulgarity and primitiveness, especially not in the public sphere and towards journalists. Considering that this behavior undermines the reputation of the municipality, we call on the leadership in Grocka to take immediate action and sanction their official.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) calls on the relevant authorities to urgently respond to the threats directed at the editorial office of "Slobodna reč" in Vranje, to identify and prosecute the perpetrator so that the journalists of that local media do not feel threatened regarding their safety.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the targeting of local media journalists on all platforms of Informer and calls on the relevant institutions and organizations to denounce such attacks.

The decision of the authorities in Serbia to ban two journalists from Montenegro from entering the country, in response to the decision of the authorities in Montenegro to prohibit Dragana J. Vučićević from entering without consulting journalistic associations, further confirms the assessments of numerous international organizations that the conditions for the life and work of journalists in Serbia today are among the worst in Europe.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly condemns the actions of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which has prohibited the team from the FAR internet portal from covering the party gathering "Serbia Wins" in Dimitrovgrad.

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has reported to the Prosecutor's Office for High-Tech Crime new threats directed at the authors of the show "Dobar loš zao" and the columnists of the newspaper Danas, Marko Vidojković and Nenad Kulačin, on the social network X.