CPJ welcomes convictions in murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija
Cenzolovka 05.04.2019
A Belgrade court today convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of the mass-circulation Dnevni Telegraf, Serbia's first private daily, and the weekly magazine Evropljanin, independent regional news website Balkan Insight reported. Ćuruvija, 51, was shot and killed on April 11, 1999, outside his home near the Yugoslav Parliament building.
„We welcome decision of the Serbian court to sentence the four perpetrators responsible for the killing of Slavko Ćuruvija, a journalist and an outspoken critic of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime, to lengthy jail terms 20 years after the murder,“ said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said. „Serbian authorities should continue to work toward complete justice by identifying those who ordered the murder and pursuing their
