Srđan Dizdarević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Srđan Dizdarević

journalist and diplomat (1952–2016)

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1952

Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 16-Feb-2016

Profession: diplomat, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Srdan Dizdarevic (29 September 1952 – 16 February 2016) was a Bosnian journalist, diplomat, and activist.
Born into a prominent Bosnian political family of diplomats, Dizdarevic graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo in 1976 and entered politics.
As a diplomat, he was the first secretary of the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Paris, and in 1991 he returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He also worked as the assistant editor-in-chief of the newspaper Oslobodenje and was a member of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1995, becoming the committee's president in 2005, serving until 2014.
He died of severe pneumonia in 2016.