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Legal Action
August 6
Zivko Savkovic, Alternativa, LEGAL ACTION
Pavle Stanisic, Alternativa, LEGAL ACTION
Editor in chief Stanisic and managing editor Savkovic, of the weekly independent newspaper Alternativa in Doboj, in Republika Srpska, were charged in connection with a July 17 article that claimed officials of the ruling Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) of Republika Srpska had blocked several opposition election meetings in Grbavica. A Doboj court convicted Savkovic on Nov. 7 under Article 80, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska, for transmitting false material injurious to the "honor and reputation" of another. Savkovic was handed a one-month suspended sentence. Stanisic was found not guilty.
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