ANEM ALARM: Hate Speech and Call to Violence Against NUNS
As always when it comes to large gatherings in Belgrade, NUNS opens its doors to its members from the provinces and other journalists who come to follow the events, whether to send reports or to take a break. (UNS does the same.)
The attack that followed from the portal Novosti, in a text where the entire content is hate speech and targeting NUNS, is an indirect call for some form of destruction of this representative association of journalists: “Serbia does not need NUNS,” is the message at the end of the text.
It is pointless to quote this “pitch-black journalism,” but it is important for the police to secure the building where both NUNS and UNS are located, which will serve as a gathering and reporting place for journalists.
The number of attacks on journalists in the past eight months at events from which they report is unprecedented in the history of journalism in Serbia. We call on representatives of the police to ensure that journalists can safely perform their work.
We urge journalists to prominently display their press cards and to wear vests with clear identification as journalists.
In case of a security threat, journalists can report it to the free Safe Line at 0800 100 115 or contact the emergency phone number for NUNS at 0606882231 and UNS at 0649410489.
The project "System for Preventing Violence and Protecting Journalists" is implemented by ANEM in partnership with Insajder TV and the Center for the Development of Local Media, with the support of the European Union and the Balkan Democracy Fund.
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