04. 04. 2005

JOURNALIST TO FACE THE COURT

PODGORICA, April 4, 2005 – Journalist Nadezda Radovic, who reported on the young girl S.C. from Moldova, accused Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic of being involved in the sexual abuse of the girl. The principal court in Podgorica ordered detention for the journalist, after being sued for libel by the Montenegrin Prime Minister. Radovic failed to appear before the judges, saying that the Podgorica court was Djukanovic’s private court. Djukanovic had sued the journalist after her open letter to the public, published by Belgrade daily Danas and Podgorica Dan. Her letter, as she stated, was written as a reaction to articles in some papers that conveyed the traumatic experiences of young Moldova girl, human trafficking victim, in the most incorrect and unprofessional manner. “I had enough of the abuse of the victim and instead of Prime Minister’s name I have put three dots, or just wrote ‘a friend’. My open letter to the public, for which I have been sued by Djukanovic, was in fact the protest against all our media that had been victimizing the victim, but protected the ones participating in the orgies, the ones who observed or concealed the whole process”, said Nadezda Radovic.