His Excellency Slobodan Milosevic President of Yugoslavia Belgrade Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vienna 9 March 1999 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the sentencing of three journalists to five-month prison terms. On 8 March, the owner of the daily Dnevni Telegraf, Slavko Curuvija, and two journalists, Srdjan Jankovic and Zoran Lukovic, were […]

Exactly ten years after NATO bombed the headquarters of Serbian state radio and television (RTS), the Vienna based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, today calls for NATO to ensure an independent investigation into the attack. On 23 April 1999, 16 media workers were killed when NATO bombs […]

The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today welcome the confirmed guilty verdicts handed down to four former officials in the Serbian state security services for the murder in 1999 of leading journalist and editor-in-chief Slavko Ćuruvija. The decision by the Higher Court in Belgrade to reaffirm the convictions in the retrial […]

On March 16, journalists of the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) in Serbia received numerous phone calls warning them that the editor of a pro-government tabloid had appeared on popular nationwide TV station TV Pink, where he promised to reveal the following day “what [KRIK editor-in-chief] Stevan Dojcinovic and KRIK are all about”. The […]