Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Nedim Sejdinovic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 08/02/2019 |
City / Location | Novi Sad |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
Media name | Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina |
Source | Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS and IJAV strongly condemned threats against Nedim Sejdinovic and called the democratic public in Serbia, as well as representatives of the European Union and the international community to urgently pressure the authorities in Serbia to stop such attacks and to take prompt and adequate punishments. |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office |
Nedim Sejdinovic, president of the Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), received numerous threats and insults through the Facebook page of “Serbija Naša Zemlja”, after publishing a post in which Sejdinovic is targeted as “Vojvodina separatist” and “Islamic fanatic” who “despises Serbia and Serbs “, as dozens of comments in which Sejdinovic was sentenced with numerous threats and insults.