2009 - Dejan Anastasijevic

He had to leave Belgrade due to serious threats to his life and that of his wife and child. In 1998, his articles on acts of violence against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo put him in conflict with the Milosevic regime. He fled to Vienna in April 1999, during the NATO bombing and the subsequent suppression of press freedom. There he worked for Time until 2002.

He returned to Belgrade, where he witnessed the downfall of Milosevic. He was the first Serbian journalist to testify against Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. His work principally concerns organised crime and the security situation in Serbia. He also wrote Out of War (London, 2000), a highly praised book on the Serbian opposition.

Thanks to the ICORN-partnership between the City of Brussels, Passa Porta and VUB (Free University of Brussels), he found shelter in Brussels from 2009 to 2010.