The corps said in a press release that judge Ante Milovac ordered the police to bring Bogeljic to today's hearing after she failed to attend the previous hearing in a private action launched by a Zadar elementary school principal, Mate Marsic.
According to the press release, the warrant to bring the reporter to the hearing was written immediately after she failed to attend the previous hearing. The corps said Bogeljic was not even given the chance to be summoned to the hearing, which the corps said was another attempt to intimidate reporters through prosecution.
The press release said the police who brought Bogeljic to the court had treated her properly.
The corps of court reporters maintains that judicial bodies are discriminatory towards reporters and that courts have double standards when reporters are threatened because they fail to set hearings in such cases, while on the other hand they condemn reporters for their work.
The corps said it would notify the International Journalists Federation as well as other international institutions protecting journalists.
The Municipal Court in the central coastal city of Zadar was unavailable for comment.