Serbian reputable writer Matija Beckovic says for ‘Blic’ that the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange is the most positive character of the 21st century. For director Gorcin Stojanovic however, Assange is an ‘instant celebrity’.

‘Reporters without borders’ appealed on the British judicial system to be impartial in its decision over extradition of Assange to Sweden where he has been suspected for two cases of rape.

Ljiljana Smajlovic, President of the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) says for ‘Blic’ that the UNS is strongly supporting what Assange is doing. She thinks that his arrest and detention is a consequence of pressure on Swedish attorney general and that it looks like a legal and political manhunt led by some of the leading countries of the world.

‘We think that Wikileaks is perhaps the most important thing that happened in journalism in recent decade. It breaks too close relation between leading media and ruling structures that exists even in the most democratic countries of the world. Vikileaks was necessary to return journalism to care about the public instead of care of preserving sources in political or economic elite. This site deserves medium status in certain way and Assange deserves status and protection given to somebody working in media’, Smajlovic says.

Writer Matija Beckovic says for our newspaper that Julian Assange has revealed a secret we all knew.

‘He made possible for people to say what they think. That what he reveals explains who and why is arresting him’, Beckovic says adding that he agrees with a Russian official who said that ‘Assange should be given the Nobel Prize for peace’.

Unlike film director Ken Loach, Serbian director Gorcin Stojanovic is not impressed with Assange and Wikileaks.

‘Assange is a kind of instant celebrity who does not attract my attention. If he is guilty for raping he should face the justice. As regards material that leaked I do not find in it anything new’, Stojanovic says. ‘All this fuss about him amuses me in the same way as did Monica Lewinsky’.