Serbia and Montenegro: Are judges protecting journalists or their aggressors?

NewsReporters 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. A total of 21 years have passed since Slavko Ćuruvija, an investigative reporter and prominent critic of the dictator Slobodan Milosević, was murdered in Belgr

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