Interview with award-winning Montenegrin reporter Jovo Martinovic
by Jane Whyatt
Journalist Jovo Martinović has won the prestigious Press Freedom Prize from Reporters Without Borders in Austria. He gives an interview to the ECPMF as his country, Montenegro, backslides on the rule of law and he faces an 18-month sentence on charges linked to his investigative reporting.
Jovo Martinovic. (photo: Courtecy of Martinovic's family)
ECPMF: You've been convicted and sentenced. What happens next?
My appeal will follow after we receive the verdict with written explanations and that could take some time. It’s been two weeks already. So I am working but being cautious. Like many other journalists, I am under surveillance.
When…
