After a closed-door session, committee chairman Ranko Ostojic told press the committee had unanimously taken the position that it was unacceptable to publish private messages which had nothing to do with a crime.

"That's unacceptable in terms of protection of civil and human rights in Croatia," underlined Ostojic.

The parliamentary committee took the position in the wake of the publication in the media of text messages with which Pukanic, a reporter and co-owner of Nacional weekly, communicated with a number of persons and the contents of which were entered into the case file in a Zagreb trial against persons accused of involvement in the assassination.

Ostojic said the committee also adopted reports on last year's performance of the Security and Intelligence Agency and the Military Security and Intelligence Agency, as well as a report by the National Security Council on the oversight of the respect of citizens' constitutional rights.

Also today, the Zagreb County Court branch of the Croatian Judges Association said that the presiding judge and the panel of judges in the Pukanic murder trial had not provided any media with a transcript of text messages from Pukanic's iPhone.

The branch said some media featured commentaries that erroneously, offensively and partially accused Judge Ivana Krsul for the state of affairs which the branch said neither she nor the panel over which she presides were responsible for.