Journalists left regional media conference during Aleksandar Vucic's speech

Aleksandar Vucic

BELGRADE - A dozen journalists from several media have left out of protest regional media conference in Belgrade, during the speech of the Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic.

Journalists from the Center for Journalism in Serbia (CINS), KRIK, BIRN, Center for Investigative Reporting from Montenegro and Maglocistac from Subotica and some other colleagues left the event.

Director of CINS Branko Cecen said that he decided to take this step because Vucic missed the opportunity to begin a real dialogue with the media and journalists while, as he said, his associates treated journalistic profession even worse.

"For me personally it would be humiliating to sit at this conference and talk about the freedom of media with the man who demonstrated that he does not care a bit about the freedom of the media. I care even less to listen him talk about the...