Actual attacks on journalists, Dragoljub Djordjević, Lazarevac, 25.07.2025.

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Actual attacks on journalists, Dragoljub Djordjević, Lazarevac, 25.07.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Man
  • Victim(s) name
    Dragoljub Djordjević

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Radnicki list Kolubara
  • Type of media platform
    Printed Media
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Facebook

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    25.07.2025
  • City
    Lazarevac
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Authorities - individuals
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists
  • Type of attack
    Arbitrary detention

  • Action by the authorities

  • Type of violation
    Security threat

  • Action taken by the journalists' association

  • Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?
    No
  • What was the reaction of the journalists' association?
    The association reacted publicly
    The association provided legal support

On July 25, the journalist of the workers’ newspaper Kolubara, Dragoljub Đorđevic, was first taken aside by the police in Lazarevac, legitimized, and then detained and detained overnight by the police for his alleged participation in the highway blockade.

Đorđević spent the night in custody, and according to what he learned from the misdemeanor judge, before whom he gave a statement on Saturday morning, he is charged with a more severe form of violation of traffic regulations. Journalist Đorđević was taken into custody by a policeman on the basis of a verbal order from a member of the Gendarmerie who asked the policeman to detain “that person”. At no time was Đorđević on the highway itself, but he filmed the blockade and the police action with his phone from the grassy area behind the embankment and outside the highway.

A misdemeanor proceeding is now being conducted against the journalist, and the procedure for gathering information and notifications about the event is ongoing.