Safejournalists network launches awareness campaign

The #SHEDLIGHT campaign was launched on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, November 2. “The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of the problem of impunity for attacks on journalists, which is present in all countries of the Western Balkans. There are very few cases with a judicial epilogue and punishments for the perpetrators,” a press release said.

It said that the Safejournalists network wants to draw attention to the 160 cases of attacks and threats against journalists that in the region in 2021 and wants them to get an outcome in court. “There were 179 attacks and threats against journalists reported to the competent institutions in 2021 in the Western Balkan region (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia and Albania). Of that number, only 19 cases were resolved before the court as first-instance and final judgments, out of which 12 were convictions,” the press release said.