NEWSLETTER # 2
ON ATTACKS AND PRESSURE AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN SERBIA
The Solidarity for the Rights of All Network presents the Newsletter # 2 on attacks and pressure against activists. The team documents attacks and pressures on the Incident Map through research of publicly available information and interviews with the victims. During 2020, 100 attacks and pressures were registered on the Map, both against those who deal with the protection of human rights, as well as those who found themselves in that role due to their actions and suffered consequences. The Solidarity for the Rights of All Network is led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, Belgrade Center for Security Policy and the People’s Parliament. During March 2021, as many as eight attacks and pressures on human rights defenders in Serbia were registered.
MOST RECENT ATTACK
ATTACKS AND PRESSURE IN MARCH AND APRIL
Attacks on the director of the Institute for European Affairs, Naim Leo Besiri | |
Date | April 3,2021 |
Type of attack | Defamation via electronic media or social networks |
Type of attacker | Member / sympathizer of a political party |
Endangered right |
Freedom of expression and freedom of association |
Arrest of Milan Vujić for posting on Twitter |
|
Date | March 26, 2021. |
Type of attack | Deprivation of liberty under the supervision of a state body |
Type of attacker | Police |
Endangered right |
Freedom of expression and the right to liberty and security |
Attack on the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights – A11 [portal It’s not nice to be silent] | |
Date | March 26, 2021. |
Type of attack | Defamation via electronic media or social networks |
Type of attacker | Media |
Endangered right |
Freedom of expression and freedom of association |
Attack on Europolis activists [portal It’s not nice to be silent] | |
Date | March 18, 2021 |
Type of attack | Defamation via electronic media or social networks |
Type of attacker | Media |
Endangered right |
Freedom of expression and freedom of association |
More on the map… | |
REACTIONS
5. april 2021. | Orchestrated attack by the Radicals on Besiri because of Milosevic |
Nova S | |
3. april 2021. | Tragicomic: Miša Vacić insults Do not let Belgrade d(r)own and offers to defend Stara Planina from SHPP |
Do not let Belgrade d(r)own | |
3. april 2021 | Message from Temska after the video with Vacić: We don’t need those with muscles, but those who defend with their souls. |
Južne vesti | |
PROGRAM SOLIDARITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL
SUPPORT TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES
2021/2022.
![]() |
||||||||||||||
We invite you to apply for the Program, which aims to increase the efficiency and resilience of local human rights defenders and improve the protection of human rights in local communities in Serbia. |
||||||||||||||
|
Save the date and join! April 19, 2021 at 10 a.m. The Lawyers’ Committee For Human Rights – YUCOM invites you to a presentation REPORT ON ATTACKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN SERBIA FOR 2020 All those interested can apply until April 18, 2021 via email office@yucom.org.rs |
ATTACKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN 2020
![]() |
CONTACT
You can report attacks and pressures against your organization and yourself to the contact below with a brief description of the event, date, place and identity of the attacker (if known). We would ask you to submit a contact phone number with the application, at which you can be reached for additional questions. You can report an attack at e-mail:office@yucom.org.rs |