**Serbian Newspaper Fakes News to Discredit Student Protests**
A Serbian newspaper has published passport photos of two brothers, claiming they were Croats leading student protests in Serbia. The move is seen as a propaganda attempt to discredit the protests.
The Vecernje Novosti newspaper published the passport pages of Lazar and Luka Stojanovic, whose parents are ethnic Serbs from Croatia. However, the brothers have Croatian citizenship because their father was born in Knin, a city that was part of the Serb Republic of Krajina during the 1990s war.
**Faking Documents**
The newspaper published only the passport photo pages, covering up the signatures written in Cyrillic script, which is not used by ethnic Croats. The two youths’ Croatian citizenship was granted because their father fled a Croatian military operation to oust Serb forces from the Krajina area.
**Lawyers Speak Out**
Several lawyers have commented on the publication of personal documents, saying it’s a violation of basic journalistic standards and the law on protecting personal data. They believe this was done to discredit the student protests.
The Serbian authorities, including the president, have previously claimed that the student protests were being directed from Croatia, using an old record of student protests in Zagreb as evidence. Many view anything coming from Croatia as negative due to Serb nationalism.
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