Attacks on journalists, Vuk Cvijic, Belgrade, 11.07.2020.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Gender

  Male
• Victim(s) name

  Vuk Cvijić

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  NIN
• Type of media platform

  Printed Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  KRIK

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  11.07.2020
• City

  Beograd
• Perpetrator(s)

  Not known
• Attacked by

  Authorities - individuals
  
• Type of incident

  Actual attacks on journalists

• Action by the authorities

• Action taken by the journalists' association

• Was journalist's association informed by the journalists directly?

  Yes

BELGRADE, July 11, 2020 – NIN journalist Vuk Cvijic’s mobile phone was confiscated by three men in the passage Bezistan within Nikola Pšić and Terazije Square in the center of Belgrade, after which photos of the protest were deleted by one of those persons. The phone was then returned to the journalist. The incident took place on the evening of July 11 as part of a protest in front of the National Assembly. According to what Cvijić stated for KRIK, first the citizens who came to the protest told him that suspicious persons were gathering in a basement in the Bezistan passage.

As the journalist stated, he reported it to the members of the Intervention Unit of the Police Brigade of the Ministry of the Interior, who opened the door to which the citizens pointed out, where their colleagues, also members of the Intervention Unit, came out from. After the members of the police left, Cvijić went down the stairs and entered the room where he found three men who told him that he could not record, took the phone and said that he had to go.

The case was not reported to the police, but the association informed the representatives of the police and the prosecutor’s office within the Standing Working Group for the Safety of Journalists.