Other threats to journalists, Getoarbe Muliqi and Dinko Gruhonjić, 16.06.2026.

Translations: Beograd 

University professor and program director of the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina (NDNV) Dinko Gruhonjić, after the publication of the analysis on media reporting on dealing with the past in the Western Balkans, together with researcher and executive director of the Association of Journalists of Kosovo (UNK) Getoarbe Mulići, as the authors of the analysis on media reporting on dealing with the past in the Western Balkans, experienced verbal attacks of hate speech and heavy targeting after the publication of the document.

The campaign began with an article published in the tabloid Informer under the title “Dinko and the ‘Shiptar’ journalist supported the blockaders and attacked Serbia”, in which the authors were exposed to derogatory, ethnically colored and inflammatory labeling.

In the text, their professional work and research is presented as an attack on Serbia, with Mulić being targeted because of his Albanian ethnic identity, and Gruhonjić through political labeling and long-term discrediting campaigns.

Of particular concern is the subsequent announcement by the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia, in which the Ministry looks back on the aforementioned analysis and mentions its authors by name in an extremely negative context. We consider it inappropriate for a ministry to publicly single out individual authors and question their credibility, motives and professional integrity. By emphasizing the identity and previous public engagement of the author, instead of addressing the issues raised in the research findings, the Ministry risks contributing to an environment in which journalists and researchers become targets of public pressure and intimidation.