Belgrade, December 30, 2021- Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia December 17-30, 2021 The past two weeks have been very difficult for freedom of expression, assembly and association in Serbia. In the town of Sabac, "arrest warrants" were issued with the faces of a journalist, a lawyer and a...
To Whom it May Concern, Civic Initiatives, like most other civil society organizations that have initiated the adoption of the current Law on Volunteering, have been advocating for a decade for it to be amended or a new one adopted. Since the adoption and the beginning...
Belgrade, December 16, 2021- Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia December 3-16, 2021 The past two weeks have been very difficult for freedom of expression, assembly and association in Serbia. N1 journalists were threatened again, this time with members of their families, while the police "warned" some local journalists...
A group of civil society organisations and experts hereby points out that the way laws and by-laws are passed, amended and abolished shows a true picture of the catastrophic state of democracy in Serbia. The content, enactment and urgent abolishment of the decree stipulating that...
Belgrade, November 18, 2021- Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia November 19 - December 2, 2021 The past two weeks have again been extremely difficult in terms of freedom of expression, assembly and association in Serbia. Journalists were again disrupted in their work, and many received threats and...
Human Rights House Belgrade and Belgrade Center for Security Policy strongly condemn the call issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs inviting citizens to report violence and roadblocks. We appeal to the institutions to refrain from pushing citizens into conflicts, because that makes them accomplices...
During the road blockade on Saturday, November 27, conducted by citizens protesting the adoption of the Law on Referendum and People's Initiative and the Law on Expropriation, the "Three Freedoms" monitoring system noted numerous incidents indicating that, while acting in their capacity to secure these...
Belgrade, November 18, 2021- Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia November 5-18, 2021 The past two weeks have been extremely difficult in terms of the freedom of expression, assembly and association in Serbia. Two activists, who were throwing eggs at a mural dedicated to war criminal Ratko Mladic...
Belgrade, November 9, 2021- Organizations gathered around the Three Freedoms Platform strongly condemn the arrest of peace activists Aida Ćorović and Jelena Jaćimović, who were brutally detained by plainclothes police while protesting against the mural of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić, and demand the termination of...
Belgrade, October 21, 2021- Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia October 22 - November 4, 2021 In the past two weeks, the trend of endangering freedoms of expression, association and assembly has continued. Convicted war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic insulted the media, which negatively reported on the petition of...
