Zagreb County

Zeljko Peratovic, a well-known investigative journalist, was attacked in his home in a village near Karlovac in central Croatia on Thursday evening.

Peratovic said that while he was in front of his house, three men drove up and started to insult him about articles written on the illegal excavation of gravel.

The Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters of Croatia (SABA) and the city authorities on Friday staged a commemoration for fallen anti-fascist fighters at the central memorial to national heroes from WWII in Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery.

The President of the Zagreb County Court has called for the Croatian law code to contain jail terms for those denying the defensive character of the independence war - but some call it an attack on free speech.

Police filed misdemeanour charges against war veterans’ leaders who have been staging an unsanctioned sit-in for five months in Zagreb, as well as a group that protested against them.

The release of figures for tourism in the Croatian capital in 2014 show Zagreb is fast transforming itself from a transit city into a tourist centre in its own right.

The Zagreb Tourist Board, TZGZ, on Friday published record figures for 2014. They showed that 910,988 tourists visited Zagreb in 2014 and made almost 1.57 million overnight stays.

BELGRADE - Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations, urged Croatia to create the political and professional conditions for punishing numerous crimes against Serbs during the war in the nineties claiming that it is a cynical decision to raise indictments against Serbian citizens from Glina for the murder of Croatian civilians in 1991.

The Croatian government met one of the demands of ex-soldiers from the 1991-95 war who have been protesting for two months outside the veterans’ ministry in Zagreb.

Days of the Homeland Film, a film festival dedicated to the memory of the 1990s war in Croatia, known as Homeland War, is starting on Friday in Zagreb.

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Former soldiers who are in their third week of non-stop protest outside the veterans’ ministry in Zagreb complained that the authorities have been violating their rights.