Veran Matić, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) and member of the Permanent Working Group for the Safety of Journalists, has addressed the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the OSCE, and the European Court of Human Rights. This formal communication follows a controversial statement by Serbia's Minister of Information and Telecommunications, Boris Bratina, who claimed that students are unaware that "the police have the right to beat them and to kill them."