{"id":9419,"date":"2024-02-14T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T12:26:18","slug":"protest-rally-for-slavko-curuvija-following-shocking-acquittals-for-journalists-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scf.clickr.rs\/en\/protest-rally-for-slavko-curuvija-following-shocking-acquittals-for-journalists-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest rally \u201cFor Slavko \u0106uruvija\u201d following shocking acquittals for journalist\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 14, 2024<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Around 700 citizens and journalists assembled in front of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cenzolovka.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=d1201177412f3a08492b7ba0a&amp;id=07bf2c3416&amp;e=7a87526103\">protest rally<\/a> in response to the court\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> February acquittal of four members of the State Security Department who were accused of the 1999 murder of journalist and publisher Slavko \u0106uruvija.<\/h2>\n<p>The Serbian courts have to date never punished anyone for murdering or committing a serious crime against a journalist. The \u0106uruvija murder trial only began in 2015, 16 years after the crime was perpetrated. It lasted almost nine years until the Court of Appeal\u2019s acquittal ruling, which it brought despite the lower court having twice convicted the defendants and sentenced them to a total of 100 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Slavko \u0106uruvija Foundation dubbed the verdict shocking. Similar reactions also came from media outlets and journalists, journalists\u2019 associations from Serbia and around the world, the OSCE, European Commission, Council of Europe and others.<\/p>\n<p>The protest included the unfurling of a flag in front of the entrance to the courthouse with the inscription \u201cYou have killed justice, but the truth lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing those gathered, S\u0106F executive director Ivana Stevanovi\u0107 said that this rally was a way \u201cfor us to show the system how hurt we are by this unjust verdict,\u201d while she also noted that citizens and journalists had been rendered speechless by the fact that \u201cthe murder of Slavko \u0106uruvija remains an unpunished crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Participants stood in silence for 25 minutes, thus commemorating the 25-year wait for justice that still hasn\u2019t come since 1999, when \u0106uruvija was gunned down in the passageway in front of the Belgrade building where he lived. Among those gathered were the murdered journalist\u2019s daughter, Jelena \u0106uruvija, together with her husband and Slavko\u2019s grandchild. They will never see justice brought, given that this verdict is final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe verdict is deeply distressing to the family, friends, colleagues and admirers of this journalist and publisher who was murdered for publicly criticizing the criminal regime of Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107. This court ruling represents a clear sign that the state is incapable of dealing with the darkest parts of its own services from the \u201890s, and that those same services still have a huge influence over both the judiciary and political processes in Serbia,\u201d explains a S\u0106F statement.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9423\" src=\"https:\/\/scf.clickr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skup-zaslavka-05022024-scf-mrisovic-3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9425\" src=\"https:\/\/scf.clickr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skup-zaslavka-05022024-scf-mrisovic-4-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9427\" src=\"https:\/\/scf.clickr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/skup-zaslavka-05022024-scf-mrisovic-5-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" 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