Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists, Zaklina Tatalovic, Belgrade, 16.08.2020.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Gender

  Female
• Victim(s) name

  Žaklina Tatalović

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  TV N1
• Type of media platform

  Radio
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Twitter

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  16.08.2020
• City

  Beograd
• Perpetrator(s)

  Not known
• Attacked by

  (ordinary) citizens
  
• Type of incident

  life_threat

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  Yes

Belgrade, August 16, 2020 – Journalist Zaklina Tatalović was verbally threatened with rape after a comment was published on the social network Twitter, which was repeated by the threatening person in the next tweet. The journalist commented on the negative comment on the writing of the editor of TV N1, Jugoslav Cosic, about the attack on her colleague Branislav Sovljanski. The same person who verbally threatened Zaklina Tatalovic first threatened the journalist Cosic in a tweet.

In response to the journalist’s comment, the person first announced what he would do, and then in the next tweet, he threatened to rape the journalist.

The journalist forwarded the tweet to the official addresses of the Minister of the Interior and the Ministry of the Interior.