IFJ-EFJ/SafeJournalists: Death threats to Tanjug journalists must be investigated

BRUSSELS - The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ), together with the SafeJournalists Network, have expressed full solidarity with Tanjug journalists who have received death threats by email for reporting on Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

"We are grateful to the Ministry of Information, together with the High Tech Crime Department of the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, for identifying the source of the threat. The Ministry showed how it can react in the shortest possible time and we expect it to do the same in similar cases in the future, especially when threats come from territory where it has authority. Those who make these death threats must be punished. Journalists must feel protected and their right to move freely and carry out their work without fear of attack must be guaranteed," the SafeJournalists Network said. <...