The Miko Tripalo Centre for Democracy and Law and the Croatian Journalists’ Association organized the round table Secrecy of the investigation – violation of media freedom and criminal prosecution of victims, defendants and defenders which was held on Monday, October 9, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. in Novinarski dom, Perkovčeva 2 in Zagreb.
The reason for the organization of this round table is the proposal to introduce a new criminal offense called “Unauthorized disclosure of the content of an investigative or evidentiary action”, which is currently in public consultation. The introduction to the topic was presented by Zlata Đurđević, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb and a member of the Miko Tripalo Centre, who was also the moderator of the Round Table, and Damir Kos, from the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia, also spoke about the topic; Elizabeta Ivičević Karas, from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law, Dušan Miljuš, journalist and president of the HND branch in Jutarnji list, Igor Martinović, from the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law, lawyer Ljubo Pavasović Visković and Maja Sever, president of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ).
