Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Olivera Kovacevic |
Gender | Female |
Date | 21/04/2018 |
City / Location | Belgrade |
Type of incident | Other threats to journalists |
By whom | By public officials |
Type of media | Radio and television |
Media name | Radio Television of Serbia |
Public prosecutor | The prosecutor's office established that there are no grounds for criminal prosecution as for criminal offences prosecuted ex officio. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS publicly condemned the threats sent to the journalist and called on the prosecutor's office to react to these threats. |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office |
Vojislav Seselj, the leader of the Serbian Radical Party and a member of the Serbian Parliament, in the tabloid Informer challenged Kovacevic’s right to talk about violence against women, he insults her and then added: “She allows herself something that nobody else would ever do. She will bear responsibility, eventually. I will punish her, personally …“