Slobodna Bosna

Slobodna Bosna (English translation: 'Free Bosnia') is an investigative weekly newspaper based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is one of the few newspapers that sells in both Bosnian entities (Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Its frequent investigations of corruption have led politicians to sue the editor-in-chief Senad Avdić. On June 23, 1999, Sarajevo Municipal Court sentenced Avdic to a two-month suspended jail term on charges of criminal libel. This led to the Committee to Protect Journalists to condemn the conviction and sentencing of Senad Avdic on criminal libel charges as a violation of all international norms of press freedom.^[1] However it is alleged by the other Bosnian investigative newspaper, BH Dani, that Senad Avdić was an informer known as Šćepo who worked for Serb secret police, where he established connections, which he exploited in his later editorial work. Slobodna Bosna became substantially unpopular among Bosnian Muslim community after its editor promoted a book, by Dominik Ilijašević Como, an ethnic Croat convicted of war crimes committed on Bosnian Muslim civilians in Kiseljak municipality by Croat forces during the 1992-1994 Croat-Bosniak war.^[2]

External links

• Slobodna Bosna

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