Branka Prpa

Former head of Serbian State Security Radomir Markovic repeated to the appeal court that he is not guilty for the 1999 murder of the Serbian journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija.

Markovic claimed that Curuvija was only put under state surveillance "due to his contacts with foreign intelligence agencies …The task of every state security is to establish the nature of these contacts".

The main trial was opened in the proceedings against four former employees of the State Security Agency who were sentenced by the first-instance verdict to a total of 100 years in prison for participating in the murder of journalist and owner of "Dnevni Telegraf" Slavko uruvija in 1999.

Historian Branka Prpa on Tuesday told the Special Court in Belgrade that Miroslav Kurak "does not look like the person who shot Slavko Curuvija."

Prpa, Curuvija's common-law wife, was with the publisher and journalist when he was shot and killed in Belgrade in April 1999.

Daily publishes details from Ćuruvija case indictment

BELGRADE -- Journalist and publisher Slavko Ćuruvija was shot and killed by Miroslav Kurak, according to a report in the Belgrade daily Politika.

The article quotes "the unconfirmed indictment of the Special Prosecutor's Office."

Branka Prpa reveals what Curuvija told Mirjana Markovic shortly before he was murdered

Branka Prpa testified at the Prosecution for Organized Crime that Slavko Curuvija had talked with Mirjana Markovic shortly before he was killed and that she had accused him of being a spy.