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Serbian artist Darko Maver arrested in Kosovo
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In October 1998 a new law is released in Yugoslavia punishing, even with imprisonment, any action or statement considered "anti-patriotic". As a result of this law Maver is arrested by military police, in the Kosovo area and imprisoned in Podgorica: «Maver is still kept in prison without a regular trial and is accused of "hostile propaganda", "support of violent acts", "writing texts with subversive and slanderous content" and of "planning and glorifying violent and armed acts moved by hostility towards the State". "In such hard times the parody of fear and blood is intolerable" declares the weekly magazine Zona Sunraka» But the art world doesn't agree and intervenes in favour of the artist: «In Darko Maver's work is evident the full consciousness of the fundamental role of public opinion, connected to the mechanism of information, in contemporary society» |
