Serbia

October 24, 2006
Posted December 27, 2006

Jevrem Brkovic, Crnogorski Knjizevni List
ATTACKED

Brkovic, editor-in-chief of the pro-government newspaper Crnogorski Knjizevni List (Montenegrin Literary Journal), was attacked by three masked men outside his home in the capital Podgorica. The attackers fatally shot the editor’s driver Srdjan Vojicic, according to the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN.

New York, August 15, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a television editor’s court conviction on a criminal defamation charge. The municipal court in the southern city of Prokuplje upheld a lower court ruling against Slavko Savic, senior editor of the local television station RTV Kursumlija.

The court, ruling on August 10, sentenced Savic to a suspended prison term and one year of probation for defaming Slavko Ilic, a Kursumlija parliament member, in broadcasts in March and April 2005. The broadcasts displayed text messages sent anonymously from viewers who alleged Ilic had stolen a bottle of grape brandy, according to local press reports.