"Murders of journalists to be solved"

Serbia's newly appointed State Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac said that her office will look to complete all unsolved murder cases.

Izvor: Beta

Wednesday, 09.12.2009.

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Serbia's newly appointed State Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac said that her office will look to complete all unsolved murder cases. Those including the cases of murdered journalists, she explained in Belgrade this Wednesday. "Murders of journalists to be solved" The new public prosecutor said that the prosecution will pay special attention to unsolved cases from the past, including the murders of journalists Dada Vujasinovic, Slavko Curuvija and Milan Pantic. She also announced that the changed provisions of the law that treat journalists as officials persons will also be consistently implemented. “Very strict punishment is recommended for threats and all forms of attacks on journalists,” Dolovac told Beta news agency. Dolovac, who was the District Public Prosecutor in Belgrade and handled case of Miladin Kovacevic, a Serbian student who fled the United States accused of inflicting serious injuries on a fellow student, said that the prosecution was transparent in that case. “The information of the Kovacevic case which caused an uproar in the public had nothing to do with the prosecution, but the specific position of our country in that case,” she said, adding that after the decision of the U.S. to transfer the case to Serbia “the further process is under the authority of the Serbian legislative system.” Dolovac, left, in parliament on Tuesday (Beta)

"Murders of journalists to be solved"

The new public prosecutor said that the prosecution will pay special attention to unsolved cases from the past, including the murders of journalists Dada Vujasinović, Slavko Ćuruvija and Milan Pantić.

She also announced that the changed provisions of the law that treat journalists as officials persons will also be consistently implemented.

“Very strict punishment is recommended for threats and all forms of attacks on journalists,” Dolovac told Beta news agency.

Dolovac, who was the District Public Prosecutor in Belgrade and handled case of Miladin Kovačević, a Serbian student who fled the United States accused of inflicting serious injuries on a fellow student, said that the prosecution was transparent in that case.

“The information of the Kovačević case which caused an uproar in the public had nothing to do with the prosecution, but the specific position of our country in that case,” she said, adding that after the decision of the U.S. to transfer the case to Serbia “the further process is under the authority of the Serbian legislative system.”

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