Murder of a journalist – personal testimony by Ljliljana Smailovic
Ljiljana Smajlovic was the International Editor of Evropljanin magazine in 1999 when the magazine’s publisher Slavko Curuvija was shot dead. On 5.April 2019 the trial of three men accused of the killing comes to an end in Belgrade.
Ljliljana Smailovic. Photo: Nedeljk
This is the testimony of Ljliljana Smajlovic, who is an Executive Board Member of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom.
I await the Curuvija trial verdict with a heavy heart and a lot of apprehension. My publisher was murdered twenty years ago. Will justice be done this Friday?
I despaired when it took the Serbian state 16 years to…