B92 reporter nominated for award

B92 reporter Brankica Stankovic has been nominated for 2010 International Press Freedom Award awarded by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). Stankovic has won a number of prestigious awards for her investigative journalism including the 2008 Bronze Olive Award for her report on Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic. B92 reporter nominated for award “Her weekly television program Insajder is said to have raised the standards of journalism in Serbia by tackling politically sensitive issues which had been marginalized or deliberately covered up for years. However, her success as a journalist has come at great personal cost. Stankovic has been subjected to ongoing threats, intimidation and harassment by right-wing nationalists and extremist football fan clubs and she has been subjected to numerous threats of rape and murder. At football games her enemies have beat, kicked and knifed dolls in her image and openly declared her death to be imminent. She has been under police protection for almost two years, yet the Serbian courts continue to trivialize these incidents as ‘private matters’,” the announcement reads. Beside the B92 reporter, Aaron Berhane from Eritrea, Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco from Peru, Emilio Gutiérrez Soto from Mexico, Harun Najafizada from Afghanistan, Luis Horacio Nájera from Mexico, Serge Sabouang, Robert Mintya and Biby Ngota from Cameroon, Islamuddin Sajid from Pakistan, Samuel Sarr from Gambia and Magomed Toriev from Russia have been nominated for the 2010 International Press Freedom Award.

B92 reporter nominated for award

“Her weekly television program Insajder is said to have raised the standards of journalism in Serbia by tackling politically sensitive issues which had been marginalized or deliberately covered up for years. However, her success as a journalist has come at great personal cost. Stanković has been subjected to ongoing threats, intimidation and harassment by right-wing nationalists and extremist football fan clubs and she has been subjected to numerous threats of rape and murder. At football games her enemies have beat, kicked and knifed dolls in her image and openly declared her death to be imminent. She has been under police protection for almost two years, yet the Serbian courts continue to trivialize these incidents as ‘private matters’,” the announcement reads.

Beside the B92 reporter, Aaron Berhane from Eritrea, Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco from Peru, Emilio Gutiérrez Soto from Mexico, Harun Najafizada from Afghanistan, Luis Horacio Nájera from Mexico, Serge Sabouang, Robert Mintya and Biby Ngota from Cameroon, Islamuddin Sajid from Pakistan, Samuel Sarr from Gambia and Magomed Toriev from Russia have been nominated for the 2010 International Press Freedom Award.