Other threats to journalists, Jasmin Garagić, LuPortal, Lukavac, 15.07.2025.

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Other threats to journalists, Jasmin Garagić, LuPortal, Lukavac, 15.07.2025.

Translations: Sarajevo 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Sarajevo
  • Who was attacked?
    Journalist
  • Gender
    Man
  • Victim(s) name
    Jasmin Garagić

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    LuPortal Lukavac
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    Journalist

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    09.09.2024
  • City
    Lukavac/Sarajevo
  • Were authorities informed?
    Case was reported to the Court
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    Public person(s)
  • Means of incidents and attacks
    Post mail
  • Type of incident
    Other threats to journalists
  • Type of threat
    Unfounded judicial and administrative harassment including SLAPP cases

  • Action by the authorities

  • Police action
    n/a
  • Public prosecutor's action
    n/a
  • Court action
    The SLAPP lawsuit is actual at Municipality Court in Sarajevo
  • Legal status of the case
    The procedure is in the investigative phase
  • Type of violation
    Other

  • 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 provided legal support
    The association organized some other form of support

The editor of LuPortal from Lukavac, Jasmin Garagić, published an audio recording in which a male person utters gender-based insults against female employees of the Public Institution Lukavac Cultural Center. It was later determined that the voice on the audio recording belongs to the director of that institution, Neven Tunjić, and that he is behind the misogynistic statements and insults the Center’s employees. This fact was published on LuPortal.

Dissatisfied with the way LuPortal wrote, Neven Tunjić requested through his lawyer to publish a “denial”, which the editor did, respecting the code of journalistic ethics and the obligation of the media to publish a denial.. Instead of accepting the publication of a denial as a professional way of responding to the media, director Tunjić filed a lawsuit with the Municipal Court in Sarajevo. This lawsuit has elements of a SLAPP lawsuit, since the plaintiff (Neven Tunjić) holds a public office and is trying to intimidate the editor of the portal and dissuade him from further writing about the work of the Public Institution Lukavac Cultural Center and the behavior of its director.

BH Journalists Association and Free Media Help Line provided legal support to the editor of LuPortal.