Writer and academic Jovo Bakić continued to face threats and harassment by government officials and pro-government social media trolls in 2024, with Minister for Family Care and Demography Milica Đurđević notably branding him ‘extremist’. Bakić further told PEN International he received several online messages threatening him and his family during the year…

On 15 May 2024, writer, editor and professor Alirio José Fernández Rodríguez received a threatening phone call from an unknown number, which he believes was state sanctioned. As a result, Fernández Rodríguez told PEN International that he…