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April 2000
 Volume 12, Number 6 (D)

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

CURTAILING POLITICAL DISSENT: 
SERBIA'S CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT 
AGAINST GOVERNMENT CRITICS

 
SUMMARY

RECOMMENDATIONS

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION
Leadership of Democratic Party (DS) Persecuted
Other Opposition Leaders Threatened with Criminal Prosecution
Physical Violence against Opposition Party Activists
Violence against Members of DS and Other Opposition Parties
The Use of Firearms by Officials of the Ruling Parties
Violent Suppression of Anti-government Protests
Armed Assaults upon Opposition Premises
Other Measures to Harass Opposition Supporters

THE FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE SUSPICIOUS DEATHS, THREATS, AND
ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT CRITICS
The Assassination of Slavko Curuvija
Car Accident or Murder?
Bomb Explosion at the House of the DS President in Valjevo
Djindjic Alleges Assassination Threat
Journalists' Cars are Burned

THE PROSECUTIONS OF NGO ACTIVISTS AND INTELLECTUALS
Dobrosav Nesic and the Council for Human Rights in Leskovac
Charges of Espionage against Intellectuals and NGO Activists
Branko Jelen, Peter Wallace, and Steve Pratt
Miroslav Hadzic and Bodo Weber

THE SUPPRESSION OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM
Criminal Prosecutions of Journalists
Zoran Lukovic and Srdjan Jankovic
Vojkan Ristic
Nebojsa Ristic
Suppression of Free Expression through Serbia's Law on Public Information
Other Forms of Pressure upon the Media

THE PROSECUTIONS OF ORDINARY CITIZENS OPPOSED TO THE GOVERNMENT
"Insulting the Yugoslav President"
Biserka Apic
Boban Miletic
Djordje Rajkovic
Prosecution of Conveners of Protests
Svetozar Fisic and Slobodan Karaleic
Ivan Novkovic
Milorad Mitic and Bratislav Stamenkovic
Bogoljub Arsenijevic

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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