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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Orthodox Jadranska Lesnica, Serbia · 2014

Branislav Peranovic: twenty-year murder sentence at an Orthodox addiction center

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Appellate history

  • 2014-01-24

    The conviction and twenty-year sentence were affirmed.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Orthodox priest, director of the Sretenje addiction-treatment center

Organization

Sretenje Orthodox addiction-treatment center

Archive classification

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The cited record identifies custodial religious-treatment authority, punishment for attempting to leave, physical violence, and institutional isolation as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is Orthodox priest and director of the Sretenje addiction-treatment center.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Pastoral or clerical authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2013-06-21 · criminal judgment and sentence

    Higher Court in Sabac, Serbia. Peranovic was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison for the fatal beating of a resident.

  2. 2014-01-24 · criminal appeal

    Court of Appeal in Belgrade, Serbia. The appellate court affirmed the murder conviction and twenty-year sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • custodial religious-treatment authority
  • punishment for attempting to leave
  • physical violence
  • institutional isolation

Cited record

Sources

public broadcaster court reporting judgment report Radio Television of Serbia, 'Peranovic sentenced to twenty years in prison' (June 21, 2013).

Serbia's public broadcaster records the Higher Court's aggravated-murder conviction, twenty-year sentence and finding that the resident died from serious injuries inflicted at the treatment center.

public broadcaster court reporting appellate disposition Radio Television of Serbia, 'Peranovic's twenty-year sentence confirmed' (Jan. 24, 2014).

The appellate report records affirmance and the finding that Peranovic and associates took the resident to an outbuilding and beat him after he wanted to leave the Orthodox Sretenje center.

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https://www.rts.rs/vesti/hronika/1346928/peranovicu-20-godina-zatvora.html Corpus classification: public-broadcaster-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 0ca2423feaa16db83506fe65f8165ee70a40faa61d8dd75a66267da0b5d4f02c
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https://www.rts.rs/lat/vesti/hronika/1503443/.html?print=true Corpus classification: public-broadcaster-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition. SHA-256 73906f7033c050ececaef6a96a2770260a75a8ae6b5cb02ca814e8e4c8437a29
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