YUGOSLAVIA: NEW GOVERNMENT RELEASES IMPRISONED SERBIAN JOURNALIST MIROSLAV FILIPOVIC

Record ID: 647617

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: NEW GOVERNMENT RELEASES IMPRISONED SERBIAN JOURNALIST MIROSLAV FILIPOVIC
  • Date: 11th October 2000
  • Summary: NIS, YUGOSLAVIA OCTOBER 10, 2000 (REUTERS) 1. SV FREED JOURNALIST MIROSLAV FILIPOVIC COMING OUT OF PRISON GATE; GATES BEING OPENED FOR FILIPOVIC AS HE LOOKS THROUGH; FILIPOVIC HUGGED BY HIS WIFE SLAVICA AS HE COMES OUT OF PRISON GATE; PEOPLE APPLAUD AS FILIPOVIC IS RELEASED (5 SHOTS) 0.37 2. (SOUNDBITE)(SERBIAN) FILIPOVIC SAYING "I feel great, it is very difficult to say something clever in these situations, I have been here for five months and all the time I was between hope and despair." 1.11 3. MV CAR CARRYING FILIPOVIC, HIS WIFE AND LAWYER ARRIVING AT CITY HALL; FILIPOVIC STEPS FROM CAR AS HE SPEAKS ON A MOBILE TELEPHONE 1.17 4. SCU/MV FILIPOVIC ENTERING CITY HALL (2 SHOTS) 1.33 5. MV FILIPOVIC ENTERS ROOM AND TAKES HIS SEAT AT MEETING WITH MAYOR ZORAN ZIVKOVIC; FILIPOVIC SEATED (2 SHOTS) 1.46 6. (SOUNBITE-SERBIAN) FILIPOVIC SAYING AS HE MEETS WITH MAYOR, I didn't know how many months and years I would spend there without those close to me. When I thought about that I became very delicate." 2.01 7. SLV FILIPOVIC SEATED; MV MEETING VARIOUS PEOPLE IN CITY HALL; WALKING OUT OF CITY HALL AND GETTING INTO CAR (5 SHOTS) 2.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2000 13:00
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  • Location: NIS, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA1C3M7ULYM3LRQ0A992RDOKAMD
  • Story Text: A Serbian journalist jailed earlier in the year for
    reporting on alleged war crimes by Serbian troops in Kosovo
    has been freed in yet another sign of the lifting of
    repression following the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic.

    Miroslav Filipovic, 49, was sentenced on July 28 to
    seven years imprisonment on espionage charges by a
    military court in Nis, 220km south of Belgrade.

    Western government and human rights organizations had
    condemned his sentencing.

    The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said a new trial had been
    ordered because the sentencing court had violated procedure.

    Upon his release, Filipovic was greeted by his wife,
    Slavica, and thanked those who had campaigned for his release
    and hoped all other political prisoners would be freed.

    Filipovic worked for the independent daily Danas and was a
    stringer for Agence France Presse, a French news agency. He
    also reported for the London based Institute for War and Peace
    Reporting. He was arrested last May.

    Filipovic was later greeted by the mayor of Nis, Zoran
    Zivkovic, a long time opposition supporter during the reign of
    Slobodan Milosevic.

    Two British policemen, a Canadian and four Dutch held on
    security charges have been freed in the last week.


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