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IJAS: Prosecutor’s Office Must Urgently Investigate New Threat Against Marko Vidojković

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) calls on the competent prosecutor’s office to urgently investigate all the circumstances surrounding the threat sent to journalist and writer Marko Vidojković via...

Albania: Social media platforms must protect media and public-interest accounts from coordinated manipulation

The SafeJournalists Network (SJN), the partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and partner organizations are concerned about recent incidents in Albania in which media, journalists, civic initiatives and...

SafeJournalists: Authorities in Serbia and Montenegro Must Urgently Investigate Threats Against Journalists

The SafeJournalists Network strongly condemns the online threats directed at journalists in Montenegro and Serbia in the previous days, most of which were triggered by their reporting and commentary related...

SafeJournalists: Cross-Border Concentration of Media Power in the Western Balkans Requires Stronger Regulatory Oversight

The SafeJournalists Network expresses concern over the growing cross-border concentration of media, distribution and telecommunications power in the Western Balkans. The expansion of Telekom Srbija, a majority state-owned company, and...

IJAS: Prosecutor’s Office Must Determine How an N1 Journalist’s Correspondence Reached the Tabloids

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) strongly condemns the campaign targeting the N1 news portal and its journalist Predrag Popović, who has been portrayed by several media outlets as...

SafeJournalists: Meta must urgently clarify recent restrictions affecting media and public-interest accounts in Albania

The SafeJournalists Network expresses concern over a growing number of unexplained restrictions and account-access problems affecting media, activists and other public-interest voices on Meta platforms in Albania. On 5 September,...

SafeJournalists: Clarifications Are Welcome, but Special Court’s Media Access Rules in Albania Still Require Review

The SafeJournalists Network is following the implementation of new rules on media access at Albania’s Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organised Crime (GJKKO), which entered into force...

IJAS: Removing N1 and Nova from Yettel’s Packages Is Not Merely a Business Matter – Media Pluralism and the Public Interest Are at Risk

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) expresses serious concern over Yettel’s decision, as part of a so-called pilot project, to change the television packages of certain subscribers by removing...

Journalists’ and Media Associations and Trade Unions: Public Consultations Cannot Replace the Legally Mandated Analysis of Required Media Content

Journalists’ and media associations and trade unions point to serious shortcomings in the manner in which the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications launched public consultations on required media content. They...

IJAS: We Condemn Insults and Threats Directed at Journalists Following Reports of Ratko Mladić’s Death

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) strongly condemns the threats, insults and intimidating messages directed at journalists, media outlets and other organisations following reports of the death of Ratko...

IJAS: Police Must Establish Responsibility for Attacks on Journalists in Užice; Institutions Must Respond to Targeting and Threats

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) strongly condemns the attacks on journalists reporting from the Serbian Progressive Party rally and the citizens’ gathering in Užice, as well as the...

IJAS: Authorities Must Urgently Identify Person Making Threats in N1 Comments

The Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (IJAS) calls on the competent authorities to urgently identify the person using the name “Nives” to post threatening comments under articles on the N1...