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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. ..
Peter R. DE VRIES
Boban BATRIĆEVIĆ
In March 2024, a court in Podgorica dropped all charges and dismissed the case against academic, writer, and vice president of the Montenegrin PEN Centre Boban Batrićević. Batrićević had faced up to 60 days in prison or a fine under Article 19 of Montenegro’s National Law on Public Order and Peace, which prohibits national…
Andrej NIKOLAIDIS
In March 2024, an effigy of prominent writer, journalist and PEN member Andrej Nikolaidis, was burnt at a carnival in Herceg Novi, southwestern Montenegro. The incident was the latest in a series of harassment and smears against Nikolaidis, on account of his views critical of the Montenegrin authorities (see Case List 2022)…
Dumitru CRUDU, Emilian GALAICU-PĂUN & Maria IVANOV
On 16 September 2024, Moldavan writers and PEN Romania members Dumitru Crudu, Emilian Galaicu-Păun and Maria Ivanov, as well as journalist Elvira Moroșan, were detained at the border of Bender/Tighina by agents with the Ministry of State Security (MGB)…
