25. 10. 2004

Journalists criticise surveillance of Danas staffer

BELGRADE, October 25, 2004 (FoNet) – The Independent Association of Serbian Journalists has strongly criticised the case of police surveillance of Belgrade daily Danas journalists Vuk Cvijic. The Independent Association of Serbian Journalists (NUNS) has demanded that the appropriate authorities determine who carried out the surveillance, under what conditions and with what intentions. In its statement, NUNS notes that, at the time his telephone was tapped, during the summer of 2001, Cvijic was reporting on the trial of defendants in the murder of four officials of the Serbian Renewal Movement in a staged traffic accident on the Ibar Highway. “The very idea that this kind of engagement by a journalist could be a reason for him to be under surveillance must be seriously disturbing to all media and professional associations of journalists in Serbia,” said NUNS in its statement.