March 8, 2023

08.03.2023 – A person in Serbia has been convicted in the first instance for stalking/harassing a journalist

One individual has been sentenced in the first instance by a court in Niš, Serbia, to six months in prison for the criminal offense of stalking/harassing Aleksandar Stankov, a journalist at the web news outlet Južne Vesti, over the phone. The incident occurred towards the end of August 2021, and the court’s decision came after a year and a half.

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