February 17, 2025
As a show of support for the students and citizens who’ve spent three months protesting on the college campuses and streets of Serbia, the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation and other journalists’ unions and associations have frozen their membership in the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists.
The protesters’ chief demand is that the rule of law function, while it fails to respond effectively and in accordance with the law in many cases of physical attacks against journalists. Journalists are targeted by top government politicians on an almost daily basis, but also by national television stations and tabloids that are under their control.
Furthermore, some preeminent civil society organisations, 28 in total, have suspended any kind of cooperation with Serbia’s legislative and executive authorities until students’ demands are met.
These organisations have announced that “the government in Serbia has” for years “strayed on an almost daily basis from basic democratic standards and the principles of the rule of law”.
