Country | SR |
Name and Surname | Slavisa Lekic |
Gender | Male |
Date | 12/10/2017 |
City / Location | Belgrade |
Type of incident | Threats against the lives and limbs of journalists |
Type of media | |
Media name | Danas and Independent Journalists Association of Serbia |
Source | Independent Journalists Association of Serbia |
Public prosecutor | Raised charges |
Legal closure | Perpatrator is convicted |
Perpatrator is convicted.Description: | The perpetrator was ordered security measures: compulsory psychiatric treatment at liberty and prohibition to communicate with the injured party. |
Was journalist`s association informed | Yes |
What was journalists' association reaction | IJAS filed criminal charges to the prosecutor's office. |
Threats targeted Slavisa Lekic, a journalist and president of the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia, on Thursday, October 12, 2017 when Lekic’s father received a phone call by an unidentified person. After the person asked – “Do you know what your Slavisa is doing and writing?”, he started with insults, followed by threats to “kill Slavisa and kill him”. He repeated several times that he would “wipe them off the face of the earth”. On October 16, 2017 a phone call came from the same number but as soon as Lekic’s father raised headphone, the call ended.