Human rights organisation condemns university's attempt to discredit one of its staff

doi:10.1136/bmj.b2455

Published 15 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2455
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2455

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Human rights organisation condemns university’s attempt to discredit one of its staff

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A Croatian court’s indictment of the attempt by a medicalschool to undermine the authority of one of its professors,after he spoke out about corruption in academia, was upheldlast month by the Croatian office of the International HelsinkiFederation for Human Rights.

The Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatia had ruledlast October that the Zagreb School of Medicine’s decisionto seek a psychiatric opinion of the work of the scientist MatkoMarusic set a "dangerous precedent according to which anyonemaking critical statements about specific interest groups, communities,or individuals could be subjected to a review of their mentalsoundness."

Last month’s decision by the Croatian office of the Helsinkifederation to uphold the court’s ruling has been welcomedby the academics and scientists who have been campaigning foralmost three years on behalf of Professor Marusic, foundingcoeditor of the Croatian Medical Journal.

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