A memorial plaque placed on the spot from where journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic were abducted on 21 August 1998 was demolished and taken away for the seventh time in the last six years. Demolished plaque was found near the spot by President of Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic and Association of Journalists of Serbia Managing Board member Zivojin Rakocevic, Radio KIM reports.

The sites of the Media Center and 'Slobodno Srpski' talk show, whose presenter is Budimir Nicic, a journalist from Kosovo, currently are under attack by a hacker group, reports Kosovo based Serbian media.

Based on the Law on the Use of Languages, Albanian and Serbian have equal status in Kosovo institutions. However, in practice very often this law is not applied, reports Gracanica based portal gracanicaonline.info.

The journalists who follow the work of the Assembly are faced with a big problem because they do not have a translation if there are no Serb deputies in the room.

During a debate “What has changed after January 16, 2018” organized in Mitrovica Social Club, NGO Aktiv Executive Director Miodrag Milicevic said that “88 percent of people don’t trust a single politician in northern Kosovo”, Radio KIM reports.

The panelists in the debate also included Deputy Leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Ksenija Bozovic and President of Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic.

In Kosovo over the last years there are, in average, 30 attacks against journalists, and since the beginning of this year there have been 13 attacks. Most of these cases remain unresolved, while attackers go unpunished, President of the Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic told RTV KIM.

Nicic also recalled unresolved cases of murdered and missing media professionals in Kosovo.

On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Nicic also reminded about 14 cases of missing and murdered journalists in Kosovo.

Chairperson of Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic requested Kosovo prosecution “to initiate in line with official duty, a lawsuit against the Kosovo Special Prosecution,” since the latter violated the Law on Official Languages in Kosovo during the press conference held on Monday, Serbian media reported.

Chief of the Special Prosecution, Reshat Milaku held a press conference, where he tried to explain to the journalists all the issues related to the indictment for fake KLA veterans and the resignation of prosecutor Elez Blakaj.

Once year after the launch of internal dialogue on Kosovo and Metohija, a question arises if it existed at all, since no conclusions so far came out of it, RTV KIM reports.

Leader of the Progressive-Democratic Party (PDS), Nenad Rasis told RTV KIM there was no dialogue in fact, and such dialogue was senseless since it did not take place at an adequate level.

"Many know who is behind the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, but it is a political trade. Everyone is silent. Many behave as if nothing has happened. Nobody wants the murderer to be found because there would be a lot of dirty laundry.“

These were the comments of the previously most influential leader of Serbs from North Kosovo, Marko Jaksic, a leader of Serb European Movement and a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in North Mitrovica, Rada Trajkovic, and journalist and author of „Slobodno srpski“, Budimir Nicic, regarding the murder of Oliver Ivanovic.

“It is the worst when journalists stop talking about their own victims, then it is the end of everything. Fortunately, in Kosovo is not the case. We will talk, ask and continue our pursuit until the institutions start treating cases of murders, assaults and persecution of journalists separately,” Chairperson of the Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic said, KIM Radio reported.

The World Press Freedom Day has been marked today by about twenty media workers in front of the MISSING art installation, in front of the Culture Center Gracanica, reports KIM radio.

The media workers carried transcripts "Find Killers of Journalists", "Arrest kidnapers of journalists", "Impunity is killing freedom of expression", but also photographs of murdered and abducted media workers in the period from 1998 to 2005.