(WiPC/IFEX) – On 7 December 2000, the Zajecar District Court summoned writer and satirist Boban Miletic to court to inform him that all copies of his confiscated book “Weep, Mother Serbia, Weep” would be returned to him. Bapsi was sentenced to five months in prison in June 2000 for comments he made at a reading […]
(WiPC/IFEX) – On 7 December 2000, the Zajecar District Court summoned writer and satirist Boban Miletic to court to inform him that all copies of his confiscated book “Weep, Mother Serbia, Weep” would be returned to him.
Bapsi was sentenced to five months in prison in June 2000 for comments he made at a reading in December 1999 which were said to libel former president Milosevic.
All unsold copies of his book of aphorisms, “Weep, Mother Serbia, Weep” had been confiscated. He was free pending appeal when the Milosevic government was overthrown in October.
Court officials reportedly returned 25 of the 31 copies of the book that had been seized by police. Commenting on this, Bapsi told the press “I will relinquish the remaining six books to the police for the sake of their education.”
International PEN now considers Miletic’s case closed.
