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 the entity of Republika Srpska and the entity of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is very popular among Serbs and Croats, due to its primar Anti-Muslim agenda. The 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. [CPJ - [http://www.cpj.org/protests/99ltrs/Bosnia28June99.html] ] However it is alleged by other investigative newspaper, BH Dani, that Senad Avdic was a communist informar 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 Ilijasevic Como, a Croat convicted of war crimes committed on Bosnian Muslim civilians in Kiseljak municipality by Croat forces during the 1992-1994 Croat-Bosniak war [Presuda Kantonalnog suda Zenica za zločine hrvatskih snaga nad bošnjakim civilima u Varešu, Kiseljaku, Stupnom Dolu - [http://www.24sata.info/5656] ] .

External links

* [http://www.slobodna-bosna.ba Slobodna Bosna]

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