Threats against the lives and physical safety of journalists, Marko Vidojkovic, Beograd, 06.03.2023.

Translations: Beograd 

• Case info

• Personal info

• Regional center

  RS
• Gender

  Male
• Victim(s) name

  Marko Vidojković

• Media outlet

• Name of the media outlet

  Nova S i Nova.rs
• Type of media platform

  Radio
  Online Media
  
• Source of information about the incident

  Marko Vidojković

• Incident Data

• Date of incident

  06.03.2023
• City

  Beograd
• 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

After sharing the information that journalist Marko Vidojković was supported by PEN International and is abroad due to the negative environment in which he works and lives, and where insults and threats are often directed at him, Marko received various insults and threats from several accounts on social networks. Thus, the social network Facebook received threats from an unknown account. The person who threatened did not stop at one threat, but continued in the same way.

The journalist is not familiar with the person or persons from the childhood and Marko is in fear due to previous threats and previous cases.

The threats were reported to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for VTK, and we will publish more details about the threats after the actions of the public prosecutor’s office and the police.