Abu Dhabi authorities have detained Stevan Dojcinovic, the editor of Serbia’s Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK), and escorted him to the airport gate where he is waiting to be deported, according to a Twitter post by Drew Sullivan, the editor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Dojcinovic was supposed to address a UN convention on corruption.
.@OCCRP and @Krikrs editor @StevanOCCRP was detained in Abu Dhabi where he was scheduled to speak at the #uncac, the UNs big anti corruption meetup. Not a promising start to the convention. He will be deported. The UAE has a lot of explaining to do about their commitment.
— Drew Sullivan (@DrewOCCRP) December 17, 2019
Sullivan said Dojcinovic was told his name was on some vague list.
Our colleague @StevanOCCRP of @KRIKrs is being escorted to the gate now in Abu Dhabi to await a flight back to Serbia. If this is how a speaker to a UN Convention on Corruption is treated, I have little faith in #UAE. Civil society is not valued and that’s a bad sign.
— Drew Sullivan (@DrewOCCRP) December 18, 2019
They gave him a comment about being on some vague list.
— Drew Sullivan (@DrewOCCRP) December 18, 2019
