- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- 09/09/2025
- actor text
- Goran Pisic (Municipal Police Commander, Zvornik)
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- confidence notes
- Direct consequence signal of SIG-BIH-042 (RS defamation recriminalisation July 2023). Municipal-level state actor using criminal defamation law against independent local media. BHJA and SafeJournalists classify as SLAPP. Editor states complaint is pressure on local media not to report on companies and politicians in Zvornik. Structural consequence category — media outlet not NGO, but mechanism is the RS defamation law instrument.
- date confidence
- exact
- excerpt
- Commander Goran Pisic, Head of Municipal Police Department Zvornik, files criminal defamation complaint against Drina Media and editor Nedeljko Bosiocic over reporting on illegal police vehicle use. Police summons and questions editor as witness. BHJA: arrogant institutional pressure, restriction of freedom of expression, attempt to deny media right to criticize public officials. SLAPP classification. Case in investigative phase. Direct operationalization of RS criminal defamation law (SIG-BIH-042).
- id
- SIG-BIH-044
- normalized date
- 2025-09-09
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor function
- Legal Instrument
- actor primary
- Goran Pisic (Municipal Police Commander, Zvornik)
- actor type primary
- State
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- campaign phase
- Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization
- campaigns served
- BIH-CAMP-003
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- confidence notes
- Direct consequence signal of SIG-BIH-042 (RS defamation recriminalisation July 2023). Municipal-level state actor using criminal defamation law against independent local media. BHJA and SafeJournalists classify as SLAPP. Editor states complaint is pressure on local media not to report on companies and politicians in Zvornik. Structural consequence category — media outlet not NGO, but mechanism is the RS defamation law instrument.
- consequence campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-003
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative
- consequence signal id
- SIG-BIH-042
- date confidence
- exact
- enabler status
- Active
- enabler type
- Legislative Infrastructure
- escalation stage
- 4
- event date normalized
- 2025-09-09
- event date raw
- 09/09/2025
- harm track
- Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
- institutional consequence
- Criminal charges; chilling effect
- narrative density
- Low
- narrative origin
- Domestic
- primary narrative code
- NF-03
- primary narrative label
- AML / Financial Integrity
- secondary narrative code
- NF-01
- secondary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/33806
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-044
- source text excerpt
- Commander Goran Pisic, Head of Municipal Police Department Zvornik, files criminal defamation complaint against Drina Media and editor Nedeljko Bosiocic over reporting on illegal police vehicle use. Police summons and questions editor as witness. BHJA: arrogant institutional pressure, restriction of freedom of expression, attempt to deny media right to criticize public officials. SLAPP classification. Case in investigative phase. Direct operationalization of RS criminal defamation law (SIG-BIH-042).
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://safejournalists.net/incidents/other-threats-to-journalists-nedeljko-bosiocic-portal-drina-media-zvornik-09-09-2025/
- tactic code
- TC-12
- target
- Nedeljko Bosiocic / Drina Media (Zvornik, RS)
- target type
- Media
- trigger type
- TR-08: Proactive / Ambient
- secondary source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/33806
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://safejournalists.net/incidents/other-threats-to-journalists-nedeljko-bosiocic-portal-drina-media-zvornik-09-09-2025/
- target text
- Nedeljko Bosiocic / Drina Media (Zvornik, RS)
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