Bosnian Women Journalists and Advocates Receive Death Threats for Supporting Refugees

Cenzolovka 14.09.2021  |  Marija Šajkaš
Bosnian Women Journalists and Advocates Receive Death Threats for Supporting Refugees

SARAJEVO—“Those prostitutes … should be lynched so they remember whom they’re dealing with,” read one comment on a Bosnian “anti-migrant” Facebook group post targeting Zehida Bihorac.

Other comments were even more explicit, detailing graphic and sexually violent threats. Bihorac is a teacher and human rights defender known for assisting “people on the move” (the term preferred by advocates to describe refugees and migrants) in Bosnia, where migration is a highly contested issue. Journalists and activists like Bihorac are routinely harassed, threatened, and intimidated for their work with refugees and migrants entering the country via the Western

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