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OSCE Mission condemns attack on Montenegrin journalist
PODGORICA 5 November 2007
PODGORICA, 5 November 2007 - The OSCE Mission to Montenegro today condemned the attack on Tufic Softic, a local journalist working for Radio Berane and the daily newspaper Republika.
Softic was attacked and severely beaten by two masked assailants on 1 November in front of his home in Berane.
Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, the Head of the OSCE Mission, called it "a brutal assault on a journalist which raises concern about the security environment in which journalists in Montenegro exercise their profession". She called on the authorities to urgently take all necessary and efficient measures and conduct an investigation to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of this criminal act.
Softic was attacked and severely beaten by two masked assailants on 1 November in front of his home in Berane.
Ambassador Paraschiva Badescu, the Head of the OSCE Mission, called it "a brutal assault on a journalist which raises concern about the security environment in which journalists in Montenegro exercise their profession". She called on the authorities to urgently take all necessary and efficient measures and conduct an investigation to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of this criminal act.