May 19, 2025
Despite it having seemed as though the targeting of Nova S Television journalist Isidora Kovačević would be one of the few cases in which at least someone received adequate punishment for threatening a media worker, it has since transpired that this hope was premature.
Following last October’s ruling of the Basic Court in Šabac that sentenced Milan Filipović to a two-year prison term for posting in public “wanted posters” for journalist Isidora Kovačević, the Higher Court in Šabac overturned the first-instance verdict, which will result in a retrial.
“Wanted posters” containing a photograph of Isidora Kovačević and the message “Wanted”, as well as the accusation that this journalist is a “media sponsor of thugs” were plastered around Šabac in December 2021.
It was just two weeks ago that Ana Brnabić, Speaker of the Serbian Assembly, cited this case as an example in her claim that the state takes care of the security of journalists.
“The situation nonetheless differs slightly. The state did almost nothing, while the competent authorities did nothing at all. Three years after the wanted posters, we still don’t know who ordered their creation, who coordinated the action, who the distributors were, nor which printing house printed the banners,” says Kovačević.
