June 2, 2025<\/p>\n
At least four physical attacks against journalists have been recorded in the last two weeks alone.<\/p>\n
N1 cameraman Marjan Vu\u010deti\u0107 was physically assaulted while he was filming a gathering of ruling party supporters during a pre-election rally in Kosjeri\u0107. He was struck and kicked while filming Milo\u0161 Vu\u010devi\u0107, president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, who served as prime minister of Serbia until recently.<\/p>\n
Tamara Radovanovi\u0107, a female journalist of regional media outlet Ju\u017ene Vesti [Southern News], was assaulted following a rally of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s supporters in Ni\u0161, with the attacker twisting her arm while standing in front of the police cordon securing the rally. Rather than detaining the attacker, a plainclothes police officer merely moved the journalist away from the spotted where she\u2019d been filming.<\/p>\n
A TV N1 journalist and cameraman, as well as a journalist of local media outlet Glas Zaje\u010dara, were subjected to verbal attacks and physical violence while reporting from a gathering of ruling party supporters in the village of Jela\u0161nica.<\/p>\n
Journalists from the newsrooms of Glas Zaje\u010dara, TV Nova, Insajder and TV N1 were prevented from reporting from the gatherings being held in the build-up to next week\u2019s local elections.<\/p>\n
A journalist of Glas \u0160umadije from Kragujevac was also attacked.<\/p>\n
Ni\u0161-based journalist Nikola Doderovi\u0107, who police detained for no apparent reason during a gathering of supporters of President Vu\u010di\u0107 in Ni\u0161, said that there are \u201cunreal pressures on journalists and their families\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
June 2, 2025 Journalists are increasingly being attacked in Serbia \u2013 more than 20 physical assaults have been recorded over the past seven months, since the start of mass protests against corruption in the country, while there have been many more threats issued and situations in which journalists and camera operators have been prevented from doing their work. At least four physical attacks against journalists have been recorded in the last two weeks alone. N1 cameraman Marjan Vu\u010deti\u0107 was physically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\n