Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Jugmedia Newsroom, Leskovac, 16.06.2023.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Who was attacked?

  Group
• Group members' names and surnames

  Jugmedia Newsroom

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Jugmedija
• Type of media platform

  Online Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Jugmedija

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  16.06.2023
• City

  Leskovac
• 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

According to the Jugmedia portal, after the announcement in Serbian and Albanian about the screening of the film “We are all different and beautiful”, which was made by young Albanians from Preševo, Vranje and Niš, on the occasion of World Refugee Day, a large number of insulting words were published under the text on Facebook and threatening comments against Jugmedia and its editor-in-chief.

After that, one of the readers responded with a column in the sense that Jugmedia and its journalists were inappropriately anathematized, and below that text in Albanian on the Facebook page, as well as on the portal itself, a series of insults and threats were also written. One of the comments includes, among other things, “… you wretched traitors I would slaughter you all.”