Serbia: IPI welcomes guilty verdicts in Milan Jovanović case
Cenzolovka 23.02.2021
The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the guilty verdicts handed down to three defendants accused of ordering and carrying out an arson attack which destroyed the home of Serbian investigative journalist Milan Jovanović in 2018.
Foto: Perica Gunjić, Cenzolovka IPI, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, said the convictions after a marathon two-year trial were an important step forward in the fight against impunity for attacks on journalists in Serbia. On January 23, a court in Belgrade sentenced Dragoljub Simonović, the former mayor of a Belgrade suburb and a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, to four years and three months in
