The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned reported threats against journalists by city hall staff in the southern Serbian city of Nis. According to local sources, on Aug. 6 city hall security ejected a TV crew from local Nis-based TV Belle Amie. A video recorded […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today appealed to Dragan Djilas, mayor of the city of Belgrade and president of the Democratic Party in Serbia, to drop his 120-billion-dinar (€1.05 billion) lawsuit […]

Serbian journalists and their families have now been targeted in three attacks using explosive devices in less than two weeks. Following an incident on Oct. 30, the Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), said it had observed an escalation of attacks against journalists in Serbia. In […]

Unknown attackers have launched Molotov cocktails against journalists’ homes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade in two incidents in one week. At 3:30 on Oct. 23, someone launched a Molotov cocktail at the terrace of Biljana Vujovic, a presenter with TV Kopernikus. Vujovic, who was lucky to be awake, was able to react quickly and to extinguish […]