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World Report 2024 - Serbia/Kosovo
Independent journalists continued to be subjected to threats and intimidation in 2023. War crimes prosecutions remained delayed, inefficient, and marred by delays. Attacks and threats against lesbian, gay, double attraction, and transgender (LGBT) people and organizations continued. Serbia and Kosovo signed a joint declaration on missing persons in May as part of an EU-brokered normalization process, but relations deteriorated after clashes in northern Kosovo later that month linked to a contested election.
Freedom of Media
Independent journalists remain under pressure with an inadequate articulate response.
In the first half of the year, the Permanent Group for the Guard of Journalists registered 42 cases of threats against journalists and the Independent Journalists’ Association recorded three attacks by the end of March.
In Pride, Stevan Dojcinovic, investigative journalist and editor of the independent news portal KRIK, received a death threat on TikTok after a podcast where he mentioned that the price for contract killings had dropped drastically. Authorities were investigating at time of writing.
During a Belgrade activism in March denounci
Episode list
"Gay Cops" talks to homosexuals in law enforcement and discusses their ability to do the profession well. "Class of '71" looks the graduates of a desegregated school in West Mecklenburg High University in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Growing Up in L.A." looks at a assist group for kids with murdered family members. "Andy Rooney" talks about introductions.
"Saddam's Banker" looks at the Atlanta banker who funneled billions of dollars to Saddam Hussein. "Clean Breeze, Clean Water, Dirty Fight" looks at the opposition between money and jobs in the environmental movement. "Movie Mavericks" looks at the successful filmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. "Andy Rooney" talks about the presidential race.
"Hire" looks at how a number of U.S. businesses are relocated to Central America. "Mr. President" talks to Billy Bulger who is president of the Massachusetts State Senate. "The Treat That Killed" examines how hemophiliacs were infected with HIV through their treatments. "Andy Rooney" show the first moments of the Rodney King video to dispel rumors
Persecution of LGBTQ, a crime against humanity?
“We already filed a case in a US court in 2012,” says Pepe Onziema, director of programmes at Social Minorities Uganda (SMUG), a Ugandan LGBTQ+ advocacy community that was banned in 2022 but which he says continues to locate ways to work. The case – “SMUG v. Lively” – was a federal lawsuit in which SMUG, represented by its US partner Center for Constitutional Rights, accused US citizen Scott Lively of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in encouraging, inciting and supporting persecution of Diverse people in Uganda.
Lively, an American anti-gay extremist, had from 2009 helped the development of a draconian Ugandan law that finally came into force in 2023. Although the US court dismissed this case on technical grounds, Onziema says its decision has some encouraging aspects. The court said notably that “widespread, systematic persecution of LGBTI people constitutes a crime against humanity that unquestionably violates international norms".
Uganda’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act not only upholds the criminalization of homosexuality inherited from British colonial times but incre
Country Report: Regular procedureLast updated: 03/07/25
Author
Nikola Kovačević
General (scope, time limits)
The asylum procedure in Serbia is governed by the Asylum Perform as lex specialis to GAPA which is applied in relation to questions that are not regulated by the Asylum Act.[1] The provisions of the Asylum Act shall be interpreted in accordance with the Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the generally recognised rules of international law.[2] Additionally, the third instance procedure before the Administrative Court is also governed by the Administrative Disputes Act (ADA).
The Asylum Act provides that a decision on asylum applications in the regular procedure must be taken within a maximum period of 3 months from the date of the lodging of the asylum application or the admissible subsequent application.[3]
In 2022, there was only 1 case in which the first instance asylum procedure which resulted in a positive decisions was concluded within the 3-month and is related to a Ukrainian family.[4] Manifestly unfounded cases can be rejected within a month, but the question that remains open is why the highly credible cases, or the mos
Rioters attack police at gay pride parade
Dozens of people were injured and more than 100 were detained as Serbian police battled right-wing extremists intent on breaking up a gay pride pride in the capital, Belgrade.
Protesters, dressed mainly in black and with hooded tops, hurled firebombs and rocks at police protecting the lgbtq+ pride marchers.
The pitched battles left around 60 people injured, most of them police.
When the extremists could not rest through the police lines, some attacked the ruling party headquarters, setting it ablaze, and stoned the headquarters of the state television station.
Police used tear gas and armoured vehicles to facilitate keep the extremists at bay.
President Boris Tadic warned that "hooligans and organisers of the aggression will be arrested and brought to justice".
"Serbia will secure respect of human rights for all its citizens, no matter what their differences are and no attempts to revoke this release with violence will be tolerated," he said in a statement.
Several shops were looted during the violence and the clean-up bill is estimated at more than $1 million.
The police said 101 people were detained, while 53 of them