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Webinar
Last month, hundreds protested in Belgrade over the final ruling of the Serbian Court of Appeal to acquit four former state security officers jailed for the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija.
The owner and editor of two widely-read independent publications was shot 13 times in front of his Belgrade home, just days after pro-government media outlets accused him of being a “traitor” and of having called on NATO to bomb Serbia. The Court of Appeal has overturned two first instance court decisions – in 2021, a Special court for organized crime sentenced former state security chief Radomir Marković and the head of Belgrade’s state security branch Milan Radonjić to 30 years in prison. Two others were sentenced to 20-years in prison. Previously, they were found guilty in 2019, but that decision was overturned and a retrial ordered. This final decision was condemned by media rights activists, journalists’ associations, including the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and MFRR partners, diplomats and politicians.
This webinar is targetted at investigative journalists to discuss the key features of this case so that such impunity cases are not replicated in other European countries. This is a topic of European concern as what happened in Serbia may happen in other countries: Slovakia and Malta are at risk of being next... the question is - how do we fight impunity after court decisions like we see in Serbia?
This webinar is co-organised by EFJ and Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS)
Date: Monday, March 18th
Time: 4:00 PM
Format: Zoom Meeting
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOypqzguHdMBv3GEpWwIiSo9-y-foffc
Panelists: Ms. Maja Sever, President of EFJ, Ms. Ivana Stevanović of Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, Mr. Veran Matić, Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists in Serbia
Moderator: Jelena Petković
© Pictures: Slavko Ćuruvija fondacija / Predrag Mitić
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