ANEM: Permanent Working Group Files Supplement to Criminal Complaint Due to Recent Threats Against Veran Matić

ANEM: Permanent Working Group Files Supplement to Criminal Complaint Due to Recent Threats Against Veran Matić Journalist and media associations within the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists (SRG) have filed a supplementary criminal complaint against the Center for Social Stability. This action follows recent threatening messages posted on social media directed at Veran Matić, the president of the Steering Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM). The SRG is urging the public prosecutor’s office to investigate these threats, which they interpret as direct death threats, and to file appropriate charges.

• Journalist and media associations from the SRG have filed a supplementary criminal complaint against the Center for Social Stability.
• The complaint concerns recent threatening messages posted on social media targeting Veran Matić, president of ANEM.
• The posts from March 17 and 18 are interpreted as direct death threats, referencing historical assassinations of journalists.
• The SRG requests the public prosecutor’s office to investigate and bring charges against those responsible for the threatening content.
• The SRG is composed of journalist and media associations, along with representatives from the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, with the OSCE Mission in Serbia as an observer.