Country | SR |
Name and Surname | [:en]Marija Vucic and Predrag Blagojevic[:rs]Marija Vucic and Predrag Blagojevic[:] |
Gender | Group [:en]Marija Vucic and Predrag Blagojevic[:rs]Marija Vucic and Predrag Blagojevic[:] |
Date | 22/04/2016 |
City / Location | [:en]Nis[:] |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
Type of media | online |
Media name | [:en]Juzne vesti[:] |
Source | [:en]Juzne vesti[:] |
Judiciary status | The public prosecutor found that there are no grounds to initiate criminal proceedings for a criminal offense which are prosecuted ex officio. There are elements of a criminal offense of insult prosecuted by the private prosecution. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | [:en]IJAS demanded from the authorities to urgently establish who was threatened and insulted journalists and to fight them take all legal measures and guarantee the safety of journalists.[:] |
After the journalists “Juzne vesti” published an article “Sometimes young people from posters, today public servants” the newsroom called people who identified themselves as parents of one of the girls that were mentioned in the text. Presenting at first as a “public prosecutor from Krusevac,” the man threatened and insulted one of the authors of the text Predrag Blagojevic. With insults and threats continued in a few minutes later in a new phone call, a woman who identified herself as the mother of the mentioned girl.