A Belgrade court has ordered that Dragoljub Simonović, president of the Municipality of Grocka and a senior official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, be detained for 30 days on suspicion of ordering the arson attack on the house of Milan Jovanović, a journalist of local portal Žig info, on 12thDecember 2018. The detention order was made to ensure the suspect could not influence witnesses or destroy evidence, or again commit a crime.
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31. jan 2019.
Prosecutor seeks maximum sentences for Slavko Ćuruvija’s murder, defence attorneys request clients’ release
The prosecutor in the trial for the murder of journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija has sought that those accused of this murder be sentenced to a maximum sentence of 40 years. The defenders of the accused, meanwhile, requested that all four suspects be acquitted.
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31. jan 2019.
Tabloids far and away the greatest violators of the Code of Journalists of Serbia
Eight national newspapers in Serbia violated the Code of Journalists as many as 3,615 times during the period from August to the end of December 2018, according to monitoring conducted by experts of the Press Council, journalists Tamara Skrozza and Petar Jeremić.
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16. jan 2019.
Transcript refutes media reports that prosecutor accused the Serbian Government of murdering Slavko Ćuruvija
The Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists announced that at the last hearing in the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, the deputy prosecutor for organised crime, Milenko Mandić, did not use his closing statement to accuse the then-Serbian Government of having been the jury when the state's leadership brought the decision to murder Ćuruvia. Journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija was gunned down in April 1999.
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16. jan 2019.
Police claim that the attempt to break into the apartment of journalist Milan Jovanović is unrelated to the firebombing of his house
The Interior Ministry of Serbia has confirmed the arrest of the person who attempted to break into the flat of journalist Milan Jovanović on 30th December last year, but they emphasised that this break-in was not directed against the journalist, nor is it connected with the arson attack on that journalist's house.
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16. jan 2019.
Section of journalists’ and media associations suspend dialogue with the Government of Serbia
Several media and journalists' associations, which comprise the Media Coalition, have announced the suspending of the dialogue with the Serbian Government's Coordination Body for Cooperation with the Media, due to this government body having failed to meet any of the demands of journalists' and media associations, while the situation on the media scene simultaneously worsens from day to day.
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31. dec 2018.
Journalist whose house was set ablaze now targetted by intruder
An unknown assailant (or assailants) attempted to break into the apartment that recently became the residence of Milan Jovanović, the journalist of local news portal zig.info whose house in the Belgrade suburb of Vrčin was set on fire on 12th December.
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31. dec 2018.
Prosecutor: Slavko Ćuruvija was killed at the order of the top of the government, the entire Government of Serbia was the jury
Three and a half years after the launch of the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of daily newspapers Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin, trial proceedings have been completed and closing arguments have commenced.
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31. dec 2018.
Arrested for gruesome threats against a journalist on Twitter
A Serbian man has been arrested, while a warrant has been issued for the arrest of another man, a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on suspicion that they threatened journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski via Twitter.
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31. dec 2018.
Journalist whose house was set ablaze now targetted by intruder
An unknown assailant (or assailants) attempted to break into the apartment that recently became the residence of Milan Jovanović, the journalist of local news portal zig.info whose house in the Belgrade suburb of Vrčin was set on fire on 12th December.
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31. dec 2018.
Prosecutor: Slavko Ćuruvija was killed at the order of the top of the government, the entire Government of Serbia was the jury
Three and a half years after the launch of the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, owner of daily newspapers Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin, trial proceedings have been completed and closing arguments have commenced.
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31. dec 2018.
Arrested for gruesome threats against a journalist on Twitter
A Serbian man has been arrested, while a warrant has been issued for the arrest of another man, a citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on suspicion that they threatened journalist Tatjana Vojtehovski via Twitter.
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16. dec 2018.
Serbian Corruption Reporter Suffers Arson Attack
A local journalist says unknown persons fired shots and set his home on fire in the Belgrade suburb of Vrcin because his reporting on corruption had angered local mafias.
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16. dec 2018.
Serbian investigative journalist targeted with arson attack
Serbian authorities must ensure the safety and well-being of investigative journalist Milan Jovanović and bring those responsible for today's arson attack on his property to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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16. dec 2018.
Brother of high-ranking ruling party official buys two national television companies
Srđan Milovanović, a former co-owner of cable television network Kopernikus, has paid 180 million euros to purchase two national television companies – TV Prva and TV O2 – which were previously owned by Greece’s Antenna group.
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12. dec 2018.
Last Despatches: Remembering the Journalists Killed in the Balkan Wars
Around 140 journalists and media workers were killed during and after the violent break-up of Yugoslavia, but only one person has ever been convicted of responsibility for any of their deaths.
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30. nov 2018.
Murdered journalist Slavko Ćuruvija was considered enemy of the state #1 by the secret service
Police Inspector Dragan Kecman, who spent 16 years investigating the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija, a journalist and owner of newspapers Dnevni Telegraf and Evropljanin, uncovered some of the key evidence and filed a criminal report against the defendants, said in his testimony before the court that the former State Security Service had for many years considered Ćuruvija “State enemy number 1”.
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30. nov 2018.
Veran Matić again criticises judges in Ćuruvija case
President of the Commission for the Investigation of Murders of Journalists, Veran Matić, has again expressed doubt over whether the goal of the court case for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija is to confirm the truth about that event.
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09. jul 2018.
“The court shows a clear intention to release those accused of murdering journalist Ćuruvija“
Veran Matić, president of the Commission for the Investigation of the Murder of Journalists in Serbia, assessed that the progression of the trial for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, which has been ongoing for more than three years, suggests the acquittal of those accused of the murder, which took place in April 1999.
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09. jul 2018.
Government forms group for media cooperation and devising media strategy
The Government of the Republic of Serbia has brought the formal decision to establish a Working Group for drafting the new media strategy, and the Coordination Group for Cooperation with the Media.