FOOTBALLER SENTENCED
Talk In Belgrade Night Club (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright! BELGRADE, September 23. A well-known Jugoslav footballer was sentenced yesterday to one year imprisonment for “hostile propaganda.” Jovan Cokic, a former member of the national team, and of Belgrade’s Red Star football club, which played against Manchester United before the Munich air crash last February, was accused of making “statements hostile to the regime” in a Belgrade night; club six months ago. While drunk he had insulted the Jugoslav State leadership and criticised communism in Jugoslavia in the presence of three Western businessmen, the District Court was told. The footballer spent six months in prison before he appeared in the court. The Public Prosecutor said he would appeal to the Supreme Court of Serbia against the sentence which he considered too low.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 11
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