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  "role": "President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia",
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      "slug": "1998-serbia-public-information-act-fines",
      "title": "Serbia's Public Information Act lets courts fine independent newspapers into financial danger",
      "occurred_on": "1998-10-20",
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      "country": "RS",
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      "continent": "europe",
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      "issue_of_the_day": "Independent Serbian media's coverage of NATO's escalating confrontation with Yugoslavia over Kosovo through 1998 and 1999.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "2001-01-01",
      "outcome_note": "The law was suspended after Milosevic lost power in October 2000 elections and a change of government in Serbia.",
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        "year": 2026,
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        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180",
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      },
      "era": "1990s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Serbia's parliament passed a Public Information Act allowing courts to levy same-day fines against newspapers for vaguely defined offenses against the state's interests, and independent papers were fined far more often and more heavily than pro-government ones.",
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