Country | MN |
Name and Surname | Andjela Djikanovic |
Gender | Female |
Date | 05/01/2020 |
City / Location | Podgorica |
Type of incident | Actual attacks on journalists |
Type of media | online |
Media name | FOS Media |
Source | Media |
Public prosecutor | According to the qualifications of the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office, Djikanovic is suspected of committing the crime of panic and disorder evocation |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is acquitted |
Perpatrator is acquitted.Description: | T |
Judiciary status | The investigating judge released Djikanovic to defend herself from freedom. It is unknown if trial has started. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | SMCG was appeal to competent authorities, especially the police and the prosecution, to pay attention to the way they treat journalists and news crews |
Were authorities informed? | Case was initiated ex officio by the Prosecutor’s Office |
Andjela Djikanovic was detained on 5th January 2020. and retained for up to 72 hours on suspicion of committing the crime of panic and disorder after she published that 250 members of ROSU, a special Kosovo unit, would be available to Montenegrin police on Christmas Eve. The news was soon denied by the Government of Montenegro.
FOS Media, portal whose editor-in-chief is Djikanovic, withdrew that information about an hour after the disputed news was published and apologized for its publication.
On January 6th she was released to defend herself from freedom. The same day, FOS published a statement saying that Djikanovic had been dismissed as editor-in-chief for a “serious professional error.”
In January 2021, the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica rejected the report of the Police Administration filed on January 5, 2020 against Andjela Djikanovic.