"Court will most probably decide whether the law has been violated because it is hard to believe that people whose names were mentioned on the list would miss out on seeking judicial protection. However, the court will not and cannot protect the public from various imputations," the statement said.
The HHO believes that by invoking the right of the public to be informed, the Zadar-based weekly in fact abused one of the greatest democratic values to justify its lack of professionalism, thus compromising the principle and practice of legal lustration.
In its latest issue, the weekly based in the central Adriatic town of Zadar published a list containing the names of people who had allegedly cooperated with the Yugoslav secret police UDBA. The list includes the names of journalists, politicians and other public figures.
Croatian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Seks today dismissed the claims by Hrvatski List that he was an associate of UDBA, stressing that this was a forgery made by the head of the former Service for the Protection of Constitutional Order (SZUP), Markica Rebic. Seks stressed that the Yugoslav secret police labelled him in the 1970s as one of the most dangerous enemies of the Yugoslav regime.