Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists, Irfan Maliqi, Viti, 08. 05. 2019.

AJK •︎ 08/05/2019

Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists, Irfan Maliqi, Viti, 08. 05. 2019.

Translations: Skopje Pristina 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Pristina
  • Gender
    Male
  • Victim(s) name
    Irfan Maliqi

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Plus Televizioni
  • Type of media platform
    Radio
  • Source of information about the incident
    Facebook

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    08.05.2019
  • City
    Vitia
  • 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

 

Through false Facebook accounts, Irfan Maliqi, a journalist at Plus Television, is threatened. He wrote two articles about coming back of women from the conflict in Syria and another about the thefts phenomenon that happened recently in the town of Vitia. He received two threatening messages from different fake accounts. One of the suspects is a known person for Kosovo Police, and one of them not.