The Independent Society of Journalists of Vojvodina (NDNV) condemned Monday’s attack on an N1 reporter covering the student protest in Novi Sad.

The reporter had her phone snatched from her hands at the University Technical Sciences School earlier in the day, after three young men surrounded her.

“Informing the public about events on the student campus, their activities and what the university school chiefs are doing is in the public interest. An assault on a journalist is a crime and endangers the public’s right to be informed,” the NDNV said in a press release.