"Military secret" becomes a public secret
ExpiredBy the decision of the Criminal Extra-Procedural Council of the Belgrade District Court Military Department, the “Military Secret” became a public one.
BELGRADE - The Criminal Extra-Procedural Council of the Belgrade District Court Military Department brought a decision to return temporarily confiscated copies of the book Military Secret I and Military Secret II to the accused Vladan Vlajkovic, the book author, and to the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the publisher. Owing to this decision the author and the publisher shall receive back all 682 copies of the mentioned book, the District Court said in a statement yesterday.
Copies of the book were temporarily confiscated in the course of investigative procedure, based on the order of investigative judge of the Military Court. The Criminal Extra-Procedural Council has, quoting the statement, "found that the purpose of temporary confiscation of the subject was exhausted in the sense of possible ensuring of proof for the criminal procedure, and preventing further exercising of the criminal act " cannot obstruct further course of the procedure, nor could it create any consequences for the security of the country, having in mind altered social/economic circumstances, and the fact that the content of the mentioned book is available to the wider audience through various means of public information and internet sites ". The author Vladan Vlajkovic reminds that the book was confiscated at the time of assassination of Zoran Djindjic and announces another, amended edition. - I am happy and thank the Commissioner for Public Information Rodoljub Sabic, Sinisa Vazic, President of the District Court and the media that have all along followed the odyssey of my book, TV Station B92 and journal Danas. I hope this is the sign that Serbia is moving towards the reform of certain systems - said for 'Danas' Vladan Vlajkovic. B. T.
