19/06/2024
The Belgrade Court of Appeals upheld a ruling against KRIK for a December 2021 article stating that the commander of the police Witness Protection Unit, Goran Živković, and two of his associates had filed a lawsuit against the newsroom. The judges’ explanation included statements not actually written by KRIK, such […]
19/06/2024
The Court of Appeals in Belgrade confirmed the first-instance ruling which found that KRIK was liable for violating the presumption of innocence of Predrag Koluvija, who is on trial for allegedly organizing a criminal group that produced more than a ton and a half of marijuana. Koluvija sued KRIK because […]
04/06/2024
Civil Rights Defenders condemns an unprecedented form of pressure and the recent lawsuits filed by Judge of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade Dušanka Đorđević against our partner, the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK). The lawsuits, which seek monetary compensation, a two-year occupational ban for KRIK journalists, and 10-month prison […]
30/05/2024
Judge of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade Dušanka Đorđević has filed two lawsuits against KRIK over the database “Judge Who Judges” in which we investigated Serbian judiciary, including her work. In the lawsuits she filed together with her husband for alleged violation of the right to privacy, the judge […]
17/05/2024
Journalists Bojana Jovanović, Milica Vojinović, and Stevan Dojčinović from KRIK won the second prize for the national investigative journalism award ‘Dejan Anastasijević’, given by the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia (IJAS). KRIK team has received the award for their story „Gendarme Vučković Issued Orders to Criminals, Destroyed the Cell Phones […]
25/04/2024
The Commercial Court in Belgrade has dismissed the lawsuit filed by the publisher of tabloid Kurir against portal KRIK, which was claiming that we are engaging in „unfair competition“ and „damaging the reputation“ of this tabloid. The lawsuit followed after KRIK’s fact-checking portal RasKRIKavanje, which checks the accuracy of information […]
12/09/2023
Belgrade High Court Judge Bojana Čogurić found KRIK guilty for violating Predrag Koluvija’s right to the presumption of innocence in an article that announced the start of the trial, ”Jovanjica 2”, in which he is the first accused. KRIK has appealed this first-instance verdict and expects the appellate court to […]
19/05/2023
Belgrade High Court judge Slobodan Keranovic made the verdict against portal KRIK for the article which explains all the SLAPPs filed against the newsroom and names the plaintiffs, including the police commander and officers from Serbian Witness Protection Unit. This is the first instance verdict and KRIK has appealed it. […]
14/11/2022
The verdict against KRIK has one major controversy: it does not question the veracity of the wiretapped conversation that the journalists published, it is also claimed that journalists have the right to explain things to their readers – but at the same time the KRIK’s editor and its journalist were […]
25/12/2021
WRITTEN BY ILYA LOZOVSKY, OCCRP The European Union has praised Serbia for its commitment to “fundamental reforms,” and the country’s drive for membership is grinding forward. Meanwhile, a campaign of pressure and intimidation against independent journalists is ramping up in Belgrade. “I will kill and burn you all,” the tweet […]
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