Civic Initiatives and the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation today addressed the Committee on Culture and Information of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, demanding that the process of determining the final list of candidates and nominators for members of the REM Council be halted...
Civic Initiatives has submitted a report to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia detailing serious legal and procedural irregularities in the previous process of selecting members of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM). The analysis is based on the...
Belgrade, May 15, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia May 1 – May 15, 2025 The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad has filed an indictment against seven activists from the informal student group Stav and five members of the Movement of Free Citizens. The prosecution...
Belgrade, April 30, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia April 18 – April 30, 2025 This week saw the first attempt by the police to forcibly break the student blockade. In Novi Sad, the police hit the gathered students and citizens with batons and shields, injuring 31...
Belgrade, April 17, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia April 4 – April 17, 2025 The police forcefully removed the students who blocked the bus from Novi Pazar to the SNS rally in Belgrade. The police violently tried to break up the student blockade of RTS. The...
Belgrade, April 3, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia March 21 – April 3, 2025 Professors and teachers who support the student blockades are under great pressure from the authorities and suffer numerous negative consequences for expressing their opinion publicly. Their February salaries were drastically reduced, but...
Belgrade, March 20, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia March 7 – March 20, 2025 On March 15, one of the largest gatherings in the past few decades in Serbia was held in Belgrade. Due to the importance of this event and the large number of events...
Civic Initiatives, Belgrade Center for Human Rights, Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA), FemPlatz, the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and the A11 Initiative are collecting testimonies of citizens who were present during the incident at protest on March 15th in Belgrade, where...
Belgrade, March 6, 2025 Violations of basic freedoms in Serbia February 14 – March 6, 2025 The deep political crisis that Serbia is also reflected in numerous violations of basic freedoms recorded in the observed period. In Belgrade, on February 25, members of the Criminal Police Directorate, on the...
February 28 2025 by Uroš Jovanović, Public Policy Program Manager at Civic Initiatives Associations and foundations in the entity of Republika Srpska will bear the label of foreign agents if they secure funding for their work from abroad and if they advocate for better laws before the...
