Convictions overturned and retrial ordered for murder of Serbian journalist Ćuruvija
Cenzolovka 03.12.2021
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today expressed dismay after a court in Belgrade overturned the convictions of those found guilty of the 1999 murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija and ordered a retrial.
Slavko Ćuruvija. Photo by Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation / Predrag Mitić Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter, owner of the Dnevni Telegraf newspaper and Evropljanin magazine, and a vocal opponent of authoritarian president Slobodan Milošević, was shot 14 times with an automatic pistol outside his house in Belgrade. In April 2019, four former spies working for the State Security Department in the former Yugoslavia were convicted for the killing and each sentenced to
