{"id":59245,"date":"2025-04-16T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/?p=59245"},"modified":"2025-04-23T00:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:30:56","slug":"tabloid-kurirs-lawsuit-against-krik-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/en\/tabloid-kurirs-lawsuit-against-krik-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabloid Kurir\u2019s Lawsuit Against KRIK Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Belgrade Commercial Appellate Court has upheld the first instance verdict and dismissed the lawsuit filed by the publisher of\u00a0Kurir\u00a0against KRIK in 2021, in which they accused us of being disloyal competition and of damaging the reputation of the tabloid. The Kurir\u2019s publisher filed the lawsuit after KRIK\u2019s portal\u00a0Raskrikavanje\u00a0revealed that in 2020\u00a0this tabloid had published more than 100 false, unfounded or manipulative front-page stories. Under the final ruling, the publisher has been ordered to pay court costs to KRIK and the other media outlets that were also sued for sharing the\u00a0Raskrikavanje investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>By: Isidora Marta\u0107<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KRIK\u2019s&nbsp;portal Raskrikavanje, which monitors the accuracy of information published in the media, published an analytical article in 2021 titled:&nbsp;\u201cClose to 1,200 false and unfounded stories on the front pages of five newspapers in 2020.\u201d&nbsp;In this investigation, which was also reported by other media outlets, Raskrikavanje&nbsp;journalists found that&nbsp;Kurir&nbsp;had published 163 false, unfounded or manipulative front-page stories in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response,&nbsp;Kurir\u2019s publisher filed a lawsuit against KRIK and several other media outlets that republished this information. The lawsuit, submitted to the Commercial Court in Belgrade, falsely claimed that KRIK was disloyal competition and that we had published false and offensive statements that damaged&nbsp;Kurir\u2019s reputation. The publisher demanded compensation totaling 11 million dinars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April last year, the first instance court rejected the lawsuit as unfounded. Judge Ljiljana Stojkovi\u0107 stated in the ruling that the allegations of unfair competition were unacceptable, as the information published on&nbsp;Raskrikavanje&nbsp;does not fall under the scope of the Law on Trade, under which the lawsuit was filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After&nbsp;Kurir&nbsp;appealed, the case was reviewed by the Commercial Appellate Court, which upheld the original ruling. The publisher was ordered to pay a total of 1.6 million dinars (approximately 13,500 EUR) in court costs to the media outlets it had sued without grounds. In addition to KRIK, this includes the Slavko \u0106uruvija Foundation, the daily&nbsp;Danas and the Center for Intercultural Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are organizations whose goal is not profit, but achieving a shared or public interest, i.e., public benefit goals&#8230; (these organizations) are not traders, they do not engage in commerce and therefore cannot be considered competitors within the meaning of the Law on Trade,\u201d the ruling stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This verdict concludes one of several proceedings launched by&nbsp;Kurir\u2019s publisher against KRIK. Two additional lawsuits are still ongoing, filed after&nbsp;Raskrikavanje&nbsp;continued analyzing front pages and published two more reports detailing the number of false and manipulative headlines published by&nbsp;Kurir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The KRIK newsroom continues to face numerous SLAPP lawsuits, which are filed with the intention of intimidating and exhausting journalists in order to stop them from reporting on certain topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those who have sued KRIK are state officials and individuals closely linked to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. Among others, Belgrade Appellate Court Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krik.rs\/en\/judge-sues-krik-seeks-jail-time-for-journalists-and-occupational-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Du\u0161anka \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107<\/a> has sued KRIK twice, seeking prison sentences and work bans for our journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domestic and international media and journalist organizations have repeatedly condemned these lawsuits, stating that their aim is to intimidate and exhaust the KRIK newsroom and have offered their full support to our team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgrade Commercial Appellate Court has upheld the first instance verdict and dismissed the lawsuit filed by the publisher of\u00a0Kurir\u00a0against KRIK in 2021, in which they accused us of being disloyal competition and of damaging the reputation of the tabloid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4169],"class_list":["post-59245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-slapp-2","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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