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The NIN newsroom asked the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) and the High Tech Crime Prosecutor’s Office to determine who is behind the threats directed at the deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly, Vesna Mališić, on the social network Twitter.
They asked the authorities to determine who is behind the order “Autochauvinism, the leader of the nobleman Džender Zaharijević[email protected]on Twitter and who is the author of the tweet that, as they assessed, “practically calls for the lynching and murder” of Vesna Mališić.
“The editorial office of the NIN hopes that the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office for High Technology Crimes will investigate the whole case as soon as possible, in accordance with the legal powers, and apply the applicable regulations. We also expect national and international attacks for attacks every more and more frequent against journalists in Serbia. ” journalists’ associations, “the statement said.
The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) condemned the “brutal attacks, hate speech and threats” directed at the deputy chief editor of the weekly NIN, Vesna Malisic, on the social network Twitter and called on the authorities to “as soon as possible” determine who is responsible.
NUNS stated that it was “rightly suspected” that “the journalist and former professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication Zoran Ćirjaković was behind the order from which the threats were sent.”
“Hate speech and calls for a lynching should in no way be an integral part of regular communication between people who think differently. Because just because a suspect has never participated in a violent event does not mean that all people who read your posts about what you wrote see it only as part of a controversy, “the statement said.
NUNS called on other media and journalistic organizations to “oppose hate speech and threats as ‘arguments’ in the exchange of opinions.”
Vesna Malisic’s threats were also condemned by the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS).
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