Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Cenzolovka, Belgrade, 16.01.2024.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Who was attacked?

  Group
• Group members' names and surnames

  Cenzolovka

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Cenzolovka
• Type of media platform

  Online Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Perica Gunjić

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  16.01.2024
• 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

Journalists of the Cenzolovka portal received threats after writing about publishing the phone number of journalist Vanja Đurić and threats against journalist Željko Veljković. After providing support to fellow journalists, several comments were published on Cenzolovka’s Facebook page, including threats and hate speech:

1. “All of you should be impaled, acacia, unoiled, does your mother smell Nazi, corrupt…”

2. “You have not yet seen or felt what a chase is”, i

3. “If you continue the pogrom of children like Pavlina and the terror against the Serbian people, the gentlemen from @cenzolovka and the united enemies of the Serbian people, the SRBOLOVKA will come upon you, and don’t mess with the Serbs”,

Due to the way in which they were expressed, aggressively and directly addressed to the journalists, the editorial office of Cenzolovka decided to report these threats. What is of particular concern is the context in which the threats were uttered and the growing tension in connection with incidents to the detriment of journalists Vanja Đurić from TV N1 and Željko Veljković from Nova S