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Hrant DINK
Impunity continues for the murder of Hrant Dink, author and editor of the Armenian language magazine Agos, killed outside his office in Istanbul on 19 January 2007. In July 2011, 17-year-old Ogün Samast was sentenced to 22 years and 10 months in prison for Dink’s murder…
Andrej HNIOT
Andrej Hniot, a Belarusian filmmaker, journalist, and activist, was arrested upon his arrival in Belgrade on 30 October 2023, on the basis of an Interpol arrest warrant issued at the request of the Belarusian authorities on alleged charges of tax evasion (Article 243.2 of the Belarusian Criminal Code), which carries up to seven years in prison…
Vladimir ARSENIJEVIĆ & other staff of KROKODIL
On 20 September 2024 at around 4pm, a group of Russian-speaking men wearing clothes with far-right Serbian imagery, entered the premises of the KROKODIL Centre for Contemporary Literature in Belgrade, took down a Ukrainian flag and intimidated staff. KROKODIL, which notably set up the first Ukrainian library in Serbia…
Jovo BAKIĆ
Writer and academic Jovo Bakić continued to face threats and harassment by government officials and pro-government social media trolls in 2024, with Minister for Family Care and Demography Milica Đurđević notably branding him ‘extremist’. Bakić further told PEN International he received several online messages threatening him and his family during the year…
Marko VIDOJKOVIĆ
Death threats against writer and journalist Marko Vidojković persisted in 2024. Vidojković notably spoke in March 2024 about his plight and the broader situation in Serbia at an online panel event marking the launch of PEN International’s 2023/2024 Case List of persecuted writers. ..
Dinko GRUHONJIĆ
Dinko Gruhonjić, a journalist, writer, and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of Novi Sad in Vojvodina, northern Serbia, has been facing increased harassment, smears, and death threats since 14 March 2024, following the publication of an edited video in which…
Slavko ĆURUVIJA
On 2 February 2024, the Belgrade Court of Appeals announced that it had acquitted four former Serbian state security officers who had already been twice convicted of the murder of journalist, editor, and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija, shot and killed outside his house in…
Yuri Alexeyevich DMITRIEV
Historian, author and head of the Karelian branch of the human rights centre Memorial, north-western Russia, Yuri Dmitriev continues to serve a 15-year prison sentence in a high-security penal colony after conviction of alleged sexual offences his supporters…
Yevgenia BERKOVICH & Svetlana PETRIYCHUK
Theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are each serving lengthy prison sentences handed down by a military court in Moscow in July 2024, on fabricated ‘terrorism’ grounds…
William NYGAARD
Following campaigning by PEN Norway and PEN International, publisher William Nygaard’s legal team successfully appealed against the decision to close the investigation into the 1993 attempted murder of Nygaard, with the Norwegian authorities announcing on 24 July 2024 that the investigation would resume. ..
