Actual attacks on journalists, Radio Dir Ruma, Belgrade, 02.11.2025.

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Actual attacks on journalists, Radio Dir Ruma, Belgrade, 02.11.2025.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Belgrade
  • Who was attacked?
    Group
  • Group members' names and surnames
    Ekipa Radio Dir-a

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Radio Dir
  • Type of media platform
    Radio
  • Source of information about the incident
    UNS

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    02.11.2025
  • City
    Beograd
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the police
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • Attacked by
    Organized groups
    Security staff or agencie(s)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    In person
  • Type of incident
    Actual attacks on journalists
  • Type of attack
    Attack resulting in physical harm

  • 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
    Light physical injury
    Damage to journalists' belongings

  • 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

Photojournalists of Radio DIR from Ruma on 02.11.2025. in 2011, during reporting, a group of unmarked men surrounded the area in front of the National Assembly.

Unknown persons demanded the journalists to delete the recordings from the device, and then they hit them on the head with their palms, which is why one of them sought medical help. During the incident, the photojournalist’s lens was ripped out, and her colleague’s press ID was taken off. The lens was returned, but the ID was not.

The case was reported to the police.