September 1, 2018<\/p>\n
Some of the largest media companies in Republika Srpska, including Radio-Television Republika Srpska, reported earlier that same day on a pamphlet containing an abundance of defamatory statements, some of which Dodik repeated at a press conference.<\/p>\n
In this text, Jahi\u0107 is accused, without any evidence, of \u2013 among other things \u2013 having at his disposal \u201cfunds of the UK, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia\u201d worth 38 million dollars \u201cfor destroying governments at the will of powerful sponsors\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jahi\u0107 dismissed all these charges, dubbing them untrue and offensive. He noted that since Dodik made his accusations he has received numerous threats via social networks, including death threats, which he reported to the police in Serbia.<\/p>\n
Dodik\u2019s shameful attack was condemned by journalist and media associations from Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the entire region, who also sought police protection for Jahi\u0107. They also noted that the CINS had received eight renowned domestic and international awards for journalism during the course of 2017, including one of the world\u2019s top awards for investigative journalism \u2013 the European Press Prize.<\/p>\n
Veran Mati\u0107, president of the Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists, recalled that investigative journalists are the most exposed to drastic threats because they deal with research into local, regional and global crime and corruption.<\/p>\n
He recalled investigative journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia from Malta and J\u00e1n Kuciak from Slovakia, who were both killed to prevent them investigating further.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are obliged to do everything we can to prevent something similar happening in our country and this region,\u201d said Mati\u0107.<\/p>\n
Just a few days later, in the Republika Srpska capital of Banja Luka, BN TV journalist Vladimir Kova\u010devi\u0107 was attacked in front of the building in which he lives by two unidentified assailants armed with metal rods.<\/p>\n
Kova\u010devi\u0107 previously received a large number of serious threats on social networks that he regularly reported to the police, but the authorities failed to react.<\/p>\n
This was the 11th physical attack of a journalist in the Western Balkans this year \u2013 the largest number of them have occurred in Serbia (4) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
September 1, 2018 Milorad Dodik, president of the autonomous B-H entity of Republika Srpska, has accused Dino Jahi\u0107 and the Belgrade-based Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CINS), of which Jahi\u0107 is editor-in-chief, of running \u201ca centre that destroys political structures in the region with money from international organisations.\u201d Some of the largest media companies in Republika Srpska, including Radio-Television Republika Srpska, reported earlier that same day on a pamphlet containing an abundance of defamatory statements, some of which Dodik […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\n