Human Rights Action: Press release on the latest attack on Slobodan Pejović

The Montenegrin police are responsible for the security of the life and property of Slobodan Pejović, a key witness in the case of a war crime committed against refugees in 1992, and a man who with his testimony about this crime has saved the honour of the Montenegrin police, which we believe future generations will know how to value.


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Amnesty International: Human Rights Defenders in Serbia Under Threat

Human rights defenders are under attack in Serbia and the authorities are failing to protect them, Amnesty International said in a briefing published today.


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Florans Artman proglašena krivom

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War Crimes Prosecutor’s Appeal Upheld

The Serbian Supreme Court overruled the judgement of the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber which had acquitted Sinan Morina, a one-time member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), of all charges that he had committed a war crime against Serbian civilians in Kosovo in 1998.


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NGOs call for Renewal of Proceedings in RTS Case

Non-governmental organizations from Serbia fully support the request by Žanka Stojanović and the Association of families of victims of the NATO bombing of the Serbian TV headquarters (RTS) in 1999, for the renewal and extension of court proceedings regarding the death of 16 RTS workers that the families believe were sacrificed by the state and military authorities of Serbia. The request was submitted to the Special prosecutor’s office for organised crime in Belgrade.


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Committee Against Torture: Serbia violated Convention Against Torture

The UN Committee Against Torture (”the Committee”) has considered the case of violence and racial abuse against a Roma man and as of May 8th 2009 has issued a decision finding Serbia to have been in violation of a number of provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (‘CAT’).


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