Independent Serbian TV channel subjected to smear campaigns, intimidation
Cenzolovka 20.11.2019
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Serbian government to stop supporting and instead publicly condemn attempts to intimidate N1, Serbia’s only major independent TV channel, whose journalists have been subjected to repeated, systematic defamatory attacks by the government and pro-government media in recent weeks.
The victims include Miodrag Sovilj, a young N1 reporter who is accused of sending President Aleksandar Vucic to hospital and who, as a result, is currently the target of an unprecedented explosion of public anger stirred up by the president’s allies and pro-government media. While the president was opening a children’s park in Belgrade on 15 November, Soviljis said to have upset him by repeatedly asking him questions about allegedly questionable purchases of
