{"id":15621,"date":"2024-08-22T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T04:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/activist-opposed-to-rio-tinto-lithium-mine-receives-anonymous-death-threats\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T04:38:36","slug":"activist-opposed-to-rio-tinto-lithium-mine-receives-anonymous-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/activist-opposed-to-rio-tinto-lithium-mine-receives-anonymous-death-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian green campaigner who co-drafted declaration against lithium exploitation now fears for his safety<\/p>\n<p>When Aleksandar Matkovi\u0107 received the first message threatening his life, he thought it was a prank. The text, sent to his Telegram account just after midnight on 14 August read: \u201cWe will follow you until you disappear, scum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matkovi\u0107 is one of the campaigners who have been at the forefront of widespread protests against plans to develop a massive lithium mine in Serbia. He said: \u201cAt first I thought someone was joking but during the morning I got another message, saying \u2018how is the struggle against Rio Tinto going?\u2019 from another profile I didn\u2019t know, and the app displayed the sender\u2019s distance as just 500 [metres] away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/activist-serbia-rio-tinto-lithium-mining-environment-death-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/96dae0b9cd6671e564f1193f34336bc2246445dd\/500_391_3756_2254\/master\/3756.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=038a01f7ffdace0d986e1c1df40400b9\" title=\"Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats\" \/>Serbian green campaigner who co-drafted declaration against lithium exploitation now fears for his safety<br \/>\nWhen Aleksandar Matkovi\u0107 received the first message threatening his life, he thought it was a prank. The text, sent to his Telegram account just after midnight on 14 August read: \u201cWe will follow you until you disappear, scum.\u201d<br \/>\nMatkovi\u0107 is one of the campaigners who have been at the forefront of widespread protests against plans to develop a massive lithium mine in Serbia. He said: \u201cAt first I thought someone was joking but during the morning I got another message, saying \u2018how is the struggle against Rio Tinto going?\u2019 from another profile I didn\u2019t know, and the app displayed the sender\u2019s distance as just 500 [metres] away.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian green campaigner who co-drafted declaration against lithium exploitation now fears for his safety When Aleksandar Matkovi\u0107 received the first message threatening his life, he thought it was a prank. The text, sent to his Telegram account just after midnight on 14 August read: \u201cWe will follow you until you disappear, scum.\u201d Matkovi\u0107 is one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/activist-opposed-to-rio-tinto-lithium-mine-receives-anonymous-death-threats\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}