Montenegro - Mayor's son gets suspended sentence for brutal attack on two journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the six-month suspended jail sentence that Miljan Mugosa, a son of Podgorica's mayor and currently a foreign ministry employee, received from a Podgorica court on 23 July for a physical attack on Mihailo Jovovic, the editor of the daily Vijesti, and photographer Boris Pejovic in August 2009. “We regard the sentence as exceedingly lenient given the brutality of Mugosa's attack and the position he held at the time,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The appeal (...)

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