Tanja Milevska, verbal threats, july 2020

AJM •︎ 12/07/2020

Tanja Milevska, verbal threats, july 2020

Translations: Skopje 

  • Case info

  • Personal info

  • Regional center
    Skopje
  • Gender
    Female
  • Victim(s) name
    Tanja Milevska

  • Media outlet

  • Incident Data

  • Date of incident
    12.07.2020
  • City
    Скопје
  • Perpetrator(s)
    Known (suspected)
  • Attacked by
    (ordinary) citizens
    (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

Tanja Milevska, journalist and correspondent in MIA (Media Information Agency), received death
threats and sexist insults on Twitter and later on Facebook, because of her public stands
expressed on social networks. The case was reported to the police, but no charges have been
raised so far.
On July, 11 th Milevska received dozens of verbal abuses, hate speech, death and rape threats on
social network after she tweeted asking whether Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the
European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament recognize the constitutional change
of 2019 making “North Macedonia” the country’s official name.
Following the tweets, trolls and active political figures have been fuelling threats to discredit the journalist in the context of parliamentary election to be held on Wednesday 15 July.