Threats against the lives and limbs, Dino Jahic, Belgrade, 22.08.2018.

IJAS •︎ 22/08/2018

Threats against the lives and limbs, Dino Jahic, Belgrade, 22.08.2018.

Translations: Beograd 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    RS
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Dino Jahić

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Centra za istraživačko novinarstvo Srbije
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media
  • Source of information about the incident
    CINS

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    22.08.2018
  • City
    Beograd
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Not known
  • 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

In the past few days, Dino Jahic and his colleagues  from Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia have been constantly exposed to insults that, at one moment, turned into serious death threats. Apart from negative comments, vulgar insults, the messages also contain hate speech regarding the name and origin of colleague Jahić, as well as explicit death threats, e.g. that it should be made  a hole in his skull.

This situation in which is Dino Jahic now is a direct consequence of the statements of issued by the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, who attacked the editor-in-chief of CINS on August 21, accusing him of leading the center, which, with the financial support of international organizations, demolishes the political structures in the region, without providing any evidence for his dangerous allegations.