Alerts | Online intimidation or smear

Arrested Serbian journalist targeted in smear campaign after COVID-19 article

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Since her release from jail on unjustified charges of “spreading panic” about COVID-19 in an article she wrote about the lack of basic PPE in a city hospital, Serbian journalist Ana Lalić has received several serious threats, calls for prosecution from pro-government media, and been targeted in an online smear campaign branding her an enemy of the state, making her fear for her safety.

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