MEDIA FREEDOMS AND SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS IN SERBIA APRIL – MAY 2020

MEDIA FREEDOMS AND SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS IN SERBIA  APRIL – MAY 2020

In the light of Covid-19 pandemic many fundamental human rights are being compromised under introduced states of emergency. This is why Independent Journalists Association of Serbia collated some of the recent developments in Serbia that influence levels of media freedoms, right to being informed and safety of journalists. Such developments add more pressure on society already recording further deterioration of rule of law and democracy. International organisations such are Reporters Without Borders and Freedom House recognised these trends Independent Journalists Association of Serbia and other civil society organisations have been warning
about in the last six years.