Serbia and Montenegro: Are judges protecting journalists or their aggressors?
Cenzolovka 02.07.2020
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the judicial authorities in Serbia and Montenegro to combat impunity in two cases in Belgrade – the appeal by those convicted of murdering a journalist in 1999 and the trial of those accused of setting fire to a journalist’s home in 2018 – and to guarantee due process in the retrial of a journalist on absurd drug-trafficking charges in Podgorica.
Graphite, Belgrade (photo: Perica Gunjić / Cenzolovka) A total of 21 years have passed since Slavko Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter and prominent critic of the dictator Slobodan Milosević, was murdered in Belgrade in 1999, but uncertainty still surrounds the conviction of the four former state security agents charged with his murder, with the Court of Appeals in Belgrade due to hear their appeal from 7 to 9 July. Their conviction in April 2019 by a special
