Serbia: journalists physically and verbally attacked by football fans

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) condemned physical attacks & threats against TV journalists by football fans in Belgrade (Serbia), while they were reporting, on Wednesday. The IFJ and EFJ called on the Serbian authorities to identify and prosecute the perpetrators. On 28 August 2019, TV N1 crew, including journalist Mladen Savatovic, and Bosnian TV channel Federalna correspondant Dejan Kozul were attacked while reporting ahead of the football Champions League game between Red Star Belgrade and Young Boys in Belgrade. N1 journalists were shooting a news report outside stadium about a war tank installed by the Red…

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JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA (JAS) – UNS Address Resavska 28/I 11000 Beograd Staff Zivojin Rakocevic (President) – zivojin.rakocevic@uns.rs Nino Brajovic (Secretary General) – nino.brajovic@uns.rs Phone +381 11 323 6337 Email press@uns.org.rs / unsinfo1@uns.org.rs Website Twitter www.uns.org.rs @UNSinfo INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS’ ASSOCIATION (IJAS) – NUNS Address Resavska 28/II 11000 Beograd Staff Zeljko Bodrozic (President) – predsednik@nuns.rs Tamara Filipovic Stevanovic (Secretary Genaral) – sekretar@nuns.rs, tamara.filipovic@nuns.rs, +381 66 88 22 009 Phone +381 11 323 6337 Email nuns@nuns.rs Website Twitter www.nuns.rs @NUNS_1994 JOURNALISTS’ UNION OF SERBIA (SINOS) Address Resavska 28 11000 Beograd Staff Dragana Cabarkapa (President) –draganacabarkapa9@gmail.com Dejan Gligorijevic (Vice President) – deglijan@outlook.com Phone +381 11 33 469 22…