Montenegrin journalist:"Someone took ten years of my life"
By Emil Weber
The Montenegrin investigative journalist, Mr Tufik Softić, has recently been awarded 7,000 euros by the Constitutional Court of Montenegro for the moral harm caused by the authorities’ failure to effectively investigate two cases of serious attacks against him.
Tufik Softić. Photo by MLDI
Mr Softić was working for Radio Berane and the daily newspaper Republika when he was attacked near his home in November 2007. At the time, he had published an article dealing with the criminal activities of a drugs gang.
Then in August 2013 he was targeted by a car bomb attack.
The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), which…
