Threats against media outlets and organizations, Jug Press, Leskovac, 20.02.2026.

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Threats against media outlets and organizations, Jug Press, Leskovac, 20.02.2026.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Group
  • Group members' names and surnames
    Jug Press
  • Number of women in group
    2
  • Number of men in group
    1

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Jug Press
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Ljiljana Stojanović

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    20.02.2026
  • City
    Leskovac
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
    Bots
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Chat applications
  • Type of incident
    Threats against media outlets and organizations
  • Type of threat
    Explicit or implicit threats to physical safety of newsroom

  • Action by the authorities

  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the phase of gathering information about all the circumstances of the case
  • Type of violation
    Security threat

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    Yes
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly
    The association provided legal support

On February 20, the editorial office of Jugpress received a message via the Messenger application from an account using the name “Zoran Stojanović – Šote”, in which, along with insults, threats of violence were also made.

The message states: “Your Ustasha mouth is the one you support, the Ustasha are destroying the church, the priests are desecrating the 200th anniversary, Serbian Russia would put you in a mine and bury you so that the infection does not spread, I will eat everything you have, both living and dead, if I were the government.”

NUNS reported this threat to the Prosecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime.