ARTICLE 19 and the Media Freedom Rapid Response coalition (MFRR) welcome the verdict in the criminal case concerning the arson attack against Serbian journalist Milan Jovanovic, rendered on 23 February by the Second Basic Court in Belgrade.
Judge Slavko Žugić – Justice at work
Cenzolovka 24.02.2021 | Veran Matić
Dragoljub Simonovic, former mayor of Grocka, charged with the first-instance verdict for ordering burning of the house of journalist Milan Jovanovic, with lawyers Gostiljac, Vukovic, Zora Dobricanin and others, rudely domineered the trial with numerous obstructions - at hearings (when there were any) and during delays for various reasons.
They were often a finger in the eye of the fact-finding process in this nationally and internationally important case of the assault on a journalist, the most severe in our country after the assassination attempt on the family of journalist Dejan Anastasijevic. Their „torturing“ over the victims lasted for almost two years – the victims being Milan Jovanović and his wife Jela Deljanin, as well as over Judge Slavko Žugić, who conducted the trial in a professional