Zoran Stojković ( sr-cyr, Зоран Стојковић; 7 October 1946 — 6 July 2020) was a Serbian politician who served as

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in the

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from 2004 to 2007. Stojković graduated from the

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and initially worked as district court judge. In the late 1980s he began a private law practice. In 1984, as a Yugoslav communist-era judge, Stojković convicted six dissidents in a trial dubbed by

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as the "last Stalinist trial in Europe". Stojković is one of the people who founded the

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, and the Serbian election committee employed him for several elections. He was married and had two children.

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