Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Nedim Sejdinovic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 14/04/2017 |
City / Location | Novi Sad |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
Source | Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina |
Public prosecutor | Raised charges |
Judiciary status | Prosecutor's office is informed that the messages which are addressed to Sejdinovic from two profiles characterized as threats. For other messages, the prosecution dismissed the criminal charges because there were no grounds for suspicion about the existence of a criminal offense which are prosecuted ex officio.Prosecutor's office raised charges against one person who is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS has publicly reacted and stated that he believes that full responsibility for the growth of violence and an atmosphere of fear in the country shall be borne by the government and remind that these threats are just a continuation of intimidation which has been recently exposed to reporters. |
Nedim Sejdinovic received a large number of threatening and insulting messages via social networks, and some of them were considered as a serious death threat.