NUNS urges for protection of journalists' safety in Serbia

BELGRADE - The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) Sunday used the occasion of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists to call on Serbia's government bodies to improve measures to protect journalists and media subjected to pressures, threats and physical violence and to be taking those measures consistently.

The most serious crimes against journalists in Serbia are still unpunished, NUNS said in a release, pointing to the unsolved murders of journalists Dada Vujasinovic, Slavko Curuvija and Milan Panic, as well as to new cases of violence against journalists that had not yet been solved.

NUNS said it would never give up the fight to establish the truth about the suffering of their colleagues and would insist on it until the perpetrators of those crimes were punished.

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists was introduced by a decision of the United Nations on December 18 last year and will be observed for the first time today, one year since the murder of French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Mali on November 2, 2013.

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