Brankica Stanković

This happened despite "the decision" of the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) that Serbia should refrain from doing so, the Belgrade-based website Insajder reported on Tuesday, according to Beta.

Ayaz has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Turkey for undermining the country's constitutional order.

Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin's Movement of Socialists party lashed out after KRIK published a report on Monday alleging that Vulin bought an apartment in Belgrade under suspicious circumstances with money he had borrowed from his wife's aunt in Canada.

After Aleksandar Vucic was sworn in as President of Serbia on a day marked by several incidents, including attacks on journalists, media representatives have warned that journalists can expect only a worse situation in future.

Several incidents, including attacks on journalists, marked a gathering of Aleksandar Vucic's supporters outside the Serbian parliament, while he was being sworn in as the new President on Wednesday.

Serbian police announced on Tuesday that they have launched an investigation into the video of alleged ballot-stuffing in favour of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic at the April 2 presidential elections.

The video, filmed with a cellphone, purportedly shows ballots being thrown into a box by two unseen men.

A study conducted in Bosna and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro by the Western Balkans Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists Safety, concludes that journalists remain vulnerable to physical attacks and other pressures, and have few ways of defending themselves effectively.

A new series of the Insider ("Insajder") investigative program will be broadcast on TV B92 starting at 21:00 CET this Monday.

The program's author Mirjana Jevtovic reveals how bribery, racketeering, and money laundering have become football's most important rules.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic announced on Wednesday that a person has been arrested for threatening Brankica Stankovic and Veran Matic.

Stefanovic posted on Twitter that the suspect was detained for sending threatening messages via email to the editorial staff of the insajder.net website, led by Stankovic, and to B92's News Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic.

The editorial staff of the insajder.net website, dedicated to investigative journalism, has received several death treats over the past week.

The death threats have been sent to the website's associates as well as to its editor-in-chief, Brankica Stankovic, and B92 News Editor-in-Chief Veran Matic - both of whom have been under around-the-clock police protection for years.

Authorities urged to take serious steps to protect reporters

BELGRADE -- NUNS has called on the authorities on Monday to take serious steps to ensure that reporters could do their job without pressure and threats.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) thus reacted to he postponement of the investigative series Reporter on TV B92.