Vladan Vasilijević was Yugoslav human rights lawyer. Throughout the 1990s he was engaged as a human rights lawyer promoting a democratic civil society and the rule of law in Serbia. In December 1989 he was one of the members of

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. The Democratic Party was the first non-communist opposition party in

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. Later he left the Democratic Party to join the

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led by

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and Nikola Milošević. He died on 29 April 1997 in

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after suffering a heart attack while participating in a discussion at city hall.

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