Serb Reporter Given 7-Year Prison Term

A Serbian reporter was sentenced to seven years in prison for writing about alleged atrocities committed by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s troops in Kosovo last year. A military court convicted Miroslav Filipovic, a reporter for the independent Belgrade daily Danas, on charges of espionage and spreading false information. Filipovic was gathering information for foreign intelligence agencies, the court ruled. Filipovic was accused of publishing a secret Yugoslav army intelligence report on alleged massacres of ethnic Albanian civilians, random shelling of villages and looting by Serbian troops and paramilitary troops during last year’s 78-day North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.