Alerts | Arrest/detention under fake news laws

Serbian journalist arrested over article on health clinic’s handling of COVID-19

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Serbian journalist Ana Lalic of online news portal Nova.rs was arrested and detained overnight for “spreading panic” and damaging the reputation of a clinical centre in the city of Vojvodina after she wrote an article about the lack of basic protective COVID-19 equipment available to its medical workers.

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