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While the police on the streets are arresting and beating students and citizens who are demanding elections, in the Assembly, the authorities are attempting to trade the election of the REM Council on a "one for you, one for me" principle, with an unprecedented outpouring of tolerance among the parliamentary benches, in order to maintain control over this body. Ultimately, the curtains of this performance have fallen.

The SafeJournalists network strongly condemns the threats, intimidation, attacks, and detentions of journalists and other media workers reporting from protests across Serbia. We call on the relevant institutions to take immediate action and provide them with protection so that they can carry out their work, which is of exceptional public importance, uninterrupted and safely—especially at a time when demonstrations against the current regime are taking place daily in the country.

Several thousand citizens, including representatives from journalistic associations, gathered this evening in the square in front of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade for a rally in support of the student from that faculty and photojournalist Aleksa Stanković, who claims that police officers assaulted him in an official vehicle.

"Attacks on independent media in Serbia are becoming increasingly brutal. The government is completely unconcerned about what the EU will say; it seems to mock the EU. The EU either lacks the strength or the political will to defend and strengthen media pluralism in Serbia," says Maja Sever, President of the European Federation of Journalists, for N1. Rade Đurić, a lawyer at the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia, notes that there has never been such a high number of recorded attacks on journalists, and we have especially never had a case where journalists and media outlets are referred to as terrorists, a statement made by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

Today, the Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, was presented with "awards" - left at the entrance to the City Assembly - declaring him the leading promoter of SLAPP lawsuits in Europe.

The N1 editorial team has received a large number of heinous and brutal threats in recent days.

In recent weeks, several citizens of Zaječar have reported seeing drones in their immediate vicinity and in their backyards, as well as near their apartments. According to the claims made by the citizens, the drones were recording them and their immediate surroundings. To our knowledge, there has been no response from the police regarding the submitted reports.

The Committee of the Assembly of Serbia for Culture and Information has today approved the proposal for the list of candidates for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM), which was put forward by associations aimed at promoting freedom of expression. The candidates are Antonela Riha, Jasmina Ninković, and Rodoljub Šabić.