Slavko Ćuruvija

B92's Matic gives statement in death threats case

BELGRADE -- B92 News Editor-in-Chief of B92 Veran Matic has given his statement to investigators in the case against Nemanja Ristic.

"It is a person prone to violence and that intensified by fear," Matic said of Ristic on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The Court of Appeal in Belgrade confirmed an indictment against four members of the former State Security Service (DB) accused of murdering Slavko Curuvija, journalist and owner of Belgrade-based daily Dnevni Telegraf, in 1999.

This decision rejected an appeal of the accused and rendered the indictment legally valid, and the trial should start soon.

B92 reporter wants her police protection revoked

BELGRADE -- Brankica Stankovic has asked the Interior Ministry to as soon as possible revoke her police protection, and took personal responsibility for the move.

The author of B92 TV's investigative program Insajder was given police protection in 2009 by a decision of the competent institutions.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime raised a new, amended indictment against four members of the State Security Service (DB), therein charging the defendants with the murder of journalist and owner of Dnevni telegraf daily newspaper Slavko Curuvija in 1999, Prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic told Tanjug.

Protection urged of journalists and media

BELGRADE -- The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) has called on the government bodies to improve measures to protect journalists.

BELGRADE - The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) Sunday used the occasion of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists to call on Serbia's government bodies to improve measures to protect journalists and media subjected to pressures, threats and physical violence and to be taking those measures consistently.

Daily publishes details from Ćuruvija case indictment

BELGRADE -- Journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija was shot and killed by Miroslav Kurak, according to a report in the Belgrade daily Politika.

The article quotes "the unconfirmed indictment of the Special Prosecutor's Office."

Colleagues hope case of murdered journalist will be solved

JAGODINA -- On the anniversary of his murder, journalist associations have said they expect the killers of Milan Pantić to be discovered by next year.

It would come in the wake of the recent indictment for the murder of another journalist, Slavko Ćuruvija.

Four former state security officers have been charged with the 1999 killing of prominent Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija, one of the most notorious crimes of the late Milosevic era.

Lies by DB chiefs ground for investigation