In April 2019, a special court in Belgrade reached a landmark verdict in the trial for the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter and owner of the Dnevni Telegraf newspaper and Evropljanin magazine. Ćuruvija, who was a vocal critic of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević and was considered an opponent of the regime […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the beating of journalist Sasa Mikic and threats of violence against reporters and media workers covering parliamentary elections in Serbia. On election day on June 21, Mikic, a longtime sports journalist who was on assignment […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today joined calls for the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Serbia to take over the investigation into the murder of journalist Milan Pantić. Pantić, a correspondent at the daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti, was killed with a blunt object […]

As lockdowns lift and Europe emerges from the immediate Covid-19 health crisis in the coming months, all extensions or suspensions of deadlines for freedom of information (FOI) requests must be reversed, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. FOIs, a process by which journalists can submit an official request to a state body or organization […]