N1 Television correspondent Zana Cimili, who was threatened with murder on social media by an anti-Albanian nationalist, told BIRN that journalists must challenge attacks on media freedom and keep on reporting the news.
“This person’s words were so calculated, so evil. That’s why this time it genuinely made me feel threatened and scared,” Zana Cimili told BIRN.
On July 5, regional television network N1 announced that Cimili, the channel’s prominent reporter from Kosovo, had received death threats online.
The anonymous person who made the threats said in their message that they had “a lifelong desire to kill an Albanian, even an Albanian child”.
The message also expressed the desire “for a new war in Kosovo during which the Albanians will feel Serbian rage”, N1 reported.
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