Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Tatjana Vojtehovski |
Gender | Female |
Date | 09/05/2018 |
City / Location | Belgrade |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
Type of media | Radio and television |
Media name | TV Prva |
Source | Independent Journalists Association of Serbia |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is convicted |
Perpatrator is convicted.Description: | The perpetrator was ordered security measures: compulsory psychiatric treatment. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS strongly condemned threats and demanded the authorities to react in accordance with the law and urgently find an adequate sanction for the person behind those threatening messages. IJAS reported the case to the Prosecutors Office for High-Tech Crime. |
Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office |
After an episode of show Zivot Prica about Serbian women who survived torture in a camp in Bosnia during the war in the 1990s, The author of the TV show received numerous threats from a Twitter user named “Rudolph Mesarosh”. Among other explicit insults and threats, the person wrote: “I’ll kill you, you treacherous whore” and “Did I tell you Chetnik whore to report me or I will cut that two-faced treacherous pig head of yours”.