Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists, Jelena Dešić, SRNA, Drvar, 22.07.2020.

BHJA •︎ 22/07/2020

Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists, Jelena Dešić, SRNA, Drvar, 22.07.2020.

Translations: Sarajevo 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Sarajevo
  • Gender
    Female

  • Media outlet

  • Name of the media outlet
    Agencija SRNA
  • Type of media platform
    Online Media

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    22.07.2020
  • 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

Journalist Jelena Dešić received a series of death threats via Facebook, in which, among other things, she was threatened with “hanging” and “burning at the stake”, after reporting on the problem of waste from Italy, dumped in the area of Drvar and Bosansko Grahovo. These threats, along with numerous other insulting comments, were published on the Facebook page of the Socialist Party from Drvar, below the post in which the business correspondence of journalist Desic and Rodoljub Dinic, one of the directors of the company “Krom reciklaza” from Drvar, who imported waste, was published.