| Country | SR |
| Name and Surname | [:en]Sejma Redzepefendic[:rs]Sejma Redzepefendic[:] |
| Gender | Female |
| Date | 17/11/2016 |
| City / Location | [:en]Novi Pazar[:] |
| Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
| Type of media | Radio and television |
| Media name | [:en]Radio television Novi Pazar[:rs]Radio-tlevision Novi Pazar[:] |
| Source | [:en]Association "Zajedno"[:rs]Association "Zajedno"[:] |
| Judiciary status | [:en]To the police department Novi Pazar, the case was reported on 20 November and criminal charges were filed against persons who threatened to the journalists. [:] |
| Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
| What was journalists' association reaction | [:en]IJAS has condemned the threats and insults sent to the journalists via social networks and called the prosecution and the police in Novi Pazar to urgently identify the authors of the threatening messages and initiate proceedings against them in accordance with the Criminal Code. And association informed the prosecution about this case.[:rs]IJAS has condemned the threats and insults directed to journalists via social networks and called the Prosecutor's Office and the police in Novi Pazar to urgently identify the authors of the threatening messages and initiate proceedings against them in accordance with the Criminal Code.[:] |
| Were authorities informed? | Case was reported to the Prosecutor’s Office |
Association “Zajedno” from Novi Pazar informed IJAS that Sajma Redzepefendic, its activist and journalist of Radio Television Novi Pazar, “as well as her family and her child (a 10 months baby) was a target of judgments and death threats”. Insults and threatening messages to Redzepefendic came after she had published the following in her post on Facebook profile “confession of women, single mothers, who experienced unpleasantness and verbal assaults from the employees of the Islamic Community in Serbia.”
