{"id":5146,"date":"2019-07-15T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:33:42","slug":"ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>A group of media outlets and non-governmental organisations, including research centres and organisations that carry out oversight on the work of the Serbian authorities, has called on the Government of Serbia and the National Assembly not to use institutions to settle accounts with independent media outlets and civil society organisations.<\/h2>\n<p>This reaction came after Aleksandar Martinovi\u0107, head of MPs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, used a session of the national assembly to accuse journalists and individuals from NGOs of endangering national security with requests made on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).<\/p>\n<p>Martinovi\u0107 made the statement during a debate on the annual report of the Commissioner for free access to information of public importance, accusing this institution of being \u201ca service and branch office of various CINS, KRIK, BIRN, BIRODI (Bureau for Social Research ), Nata\u0161a Kandi\u0107 (founder of the Humanitarian Law Centre), Nemanja Nenadi\u0107 (Transparency Serbia), and so on, which actually sought from the competent state authorities, in most cases, very sensitive data in security terms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed jointly by the editorial offices of CINS, KRIK, BIRN, Istinomer, TV N1 and weekly news magazine Vreme, as well as NGOs Transparency Serbia and CRTA, it is warned that this is about the targeting of journalists and civil society organisations to suggest that requests on the basis of FOIA are contrary to the interests of our country, and that is part of the \u201ccontinuous pressure exerted on the work of independent and professional media companies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2019 A group of media outlets and non-governmental organisations, including research centres and organisations that carry out oversight on the work of the Serbian authorities, has called on the Government of Serbia and the National Assembly not to use institutions to settle accounts with independent media outlets and civil society organisations. This reaction came after Aleksandar Martinovi\u0107, head of MPs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, used a session of the national assembly to accuse journalists and individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 15, 2019 A group of media outlets and non-governmental organisations, including research centres and organisations that carry out oversight on the work of the Serbian authorities, has called on the Government of Serbia and the National Assembly not to use institutions to settle accounts with independent media outlets and civil society organisations. This reaction came after Aleksandar Martinovi\u0107, head of MPs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, used a session of the national assembly to accuse journalists and individuals [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"456\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Vojin Mitrovic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@scfondacija\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@scfondacija\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Vojin Mitrovic\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741\"},\"headline\":\"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\"},\"wordCount\":265,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\",\"name\":\"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":456},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/\",\"name\":\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija\",\"description\":\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija (S\u0106F) radi na promociji i unapre\u0111enju slobodnih, nezavisnih i odgovornih medija u Srbiji.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Slavko Curuvija Foundation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Slavko Curuvija Foundation\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/scfondacija\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/slavko_curuvija_fondacija\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/slavko-curuvija-foundation\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEDcWS1sfG6qvaiBvVJJVRQ\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741\",\"name\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/author\/vojin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security","og_description":"July 15, 2019 A group of media outlets and non-governmental organisations, including research centres and organisations that carry out oversight on the work of the Serbian authorities, has called on the Government of Serbia and the National Assembly not to use institutions to settle accounts with independent media outlets and civil society organisations. This reaction came after Aleksandar Martinovi\u0107, head of MPs of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, used a session of the national assembly to accuse journalists and individuals [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/","og_site_name":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/","article_published_time":"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":456,"url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Vojin Mitrovic","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@scfondacija","twitter_site":"@scfondacija","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Vojin Mitrovic","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/"},"author":{"name":"Vojin Mitrovic","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741"},"headline":"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security","datePublished":"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/"},"wordCount":265,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/","name":"Ruling party MP accuses media and NGOs of using FOIA to endanger national security","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg","datePublished":"2019-07-15T10:30:04+00:00","dateModified":"2019-12-16T11:33:42+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/ruling-party-mp-accuses-media-and-ngos-of-using-foia-to-endanger-national-security\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/freedom-of-the-press.jpg","width":640,"height":456},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/","name":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija","description":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija (S\u0106F) radi na promociji i unapre\u0111enju slobodnih, nezavisnih i odgovornih medija u Srbiji.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization","name":"Slavko Curuvija Foundation","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg","width":900,"height":600,"caption":"Slavko Curuvija Foundation"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/","https:\/\/x.com\/scfondacija","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/slavko_curuvija_fondacija\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/slavko-curuvija-foundation\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEDcWS1sfG6qvaiBvVJJVRQ"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741","name":"Vojin Mitrovic","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Vojin Mitrovic"},"url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/author\/vojin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5146\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}