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No such thing as free speech in Serbia, says deported actor and war critic
Fedja Stukan says he was not allowed to enter country after writing ‘dangerous book’ on his experience in 1990s war
A Bosnian actor who was deported from Serbia this week has said he believes he was expelled for writing openly about his experience in the war in the 1990s and that “there is no such thing” as freedom of expression under the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić. On Monday, Stukan, who has previously participated in anti-government protests in Belgrade, also took aim at Serbia’s leadership, arguing that the country’s president allows some opposition voices to maintain a veneer of democracy. In a recent report, Freedom House thinktank pointed to “unfair electoral conditions and numerous irregularities” in the elections in December and “an increasingly hostile environment for critical journalism”.
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