Djordje Jokic25. November 2024.
I sat on Thursday in the small courtroom of the Palace of Justice at the preliminary hearing of the civil lawsuit of Appellate Court judge Dušanka Djordjević and her husband, lawyer Aleksandar Djordjević, one of the heads of department in the State Security Agency in the 1990s (and a member of Mirjana Marković's security), in the State Security headed by Radomir Marković, legally convicted of organizing or participating in several murders. Judge Djordjević recently, as part of the Appellate Panel, took part in the acquittal of the accused, and those sentenced in the first instance to a total of 100 years in prison, in the case of the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, which was the peak of the process of silencing independent media in the 1990s. Besides me, Tamara Filipović from NUNS and Sofija Bogosavljev from KRIK attended the hearing. I was also at the preliminary hearing on the criminal complaint filed by the same prosecutors against the editorial office for the same accusations, and then, there were many more colleagues, as well as observers from seven embassies.