Montenegro - Alerts
In July 2011, a few months after Petar Komnenic's original conviction, the government passed a law decriminalizing libel and making it a matter of civil litigation.
This was not the first time that Lakic had been threatened. In February 2011, she reported on illegal labelling of tobacco products. Both she and her family received threats. Two men are currently on trial for threatening her.
Despite the condemnation of prior attacks, the authorities have not created a setting in which the daily's journalists can work free from pressure, says IPI.
"The recurrent attacks on 'Vijesti' lead us to believe that this daily is a deliberate target," says IPI affiliate SEEMO.
"Vijesti" was the target of yet another attack as two of the daily's cars were torched when they were parked across from the National Security Agency's offices.
The decision marks a great advancement for free expression in the country, which is now one of the few in Europe where defamation is not a criminal offence.
Zeljko Ivanovic, Slavoljub Scekic, Balsa Brkovic, Ljubisa Mitrovic and Milan Popovic received letters by post containing threats such as "It is over, you are next", according to IPI.
The draft Law has a number of positive features, but ARTICLE 19 also highlights some shortcomings.
IPI is alarmed over an assault on two journalists from the independent Montenegrin daily "Vijesti" by the mayor of Podgorica and his son.
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 press release:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a press release by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a press release by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an 8 September 2008 ARTICLE 19 press release:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a press release by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is a 27 June 2008 ARTICLE 19 press release:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a press release by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(ANEM/IFEX) - The following is an ANEM press release:
(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a 19 December 2007 press release by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an IPI affiliate:
(WAN/IFEX) - The following is a WAN letter to former Montenegro president and prime minister Milo Djukanovic:
(WAN/IFEX) - The following is a WAN letter to President Filip Vujanovic:
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