Protection urged of journalists and media

Protection urged of journalists and media

BELGRADE -- The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) has called on the government bodies to improve measures to protect journalists.

These measures should extend to the media subjected to pressures, threats and physical violence and to be taking those measures consistently, the organization said on the occasion of International Day to End Impunity.

The most serious crimes against journalists in Serbia are still unpunished, NUNS said in a release, pointing to the unsolved murders of journalists Dada Vujasinović, Slavko Ćuruvija and Milan Panić, as well as to new cases of violence against journalists that had not yet been solved.

NUNS said it would never give up the fight to establish the truth about the suffering of their colleagues and would insist on it until the perpetrators of those crimes were punished.