Aida Corovic

The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) awarded the leader of the extremist Serbian Radical Party (SRP), Vojislav Seselj, who in 2018 was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Hague Tribunal for inciting the persecution, deportation and forced displacement of Croats in the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina in 1992.

"The mural must go", declared a placard at a protest in the centre of Belgrade on Tuesday sparked by the arrests of two female activists, Aida Corovic and Jelena Jacimovic, who had thrown eggs at a mural of Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in the city.

Djordjo Zujovic, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, SDP, threw a bucket of paint over a mural of wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in Belgrade on Wednesday, despite continuing police efforts to protect the tribute to the Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Deputies of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA) have submitted "a draft resolution on genocide in Srebrenica" to the Serbian parliament.

Serbia seeks to improve protection for human rights defenders

Activists and the EU are urging Serbia to increase protection for human rights defenders.

LGBT activists are a main target for extremist groups in Serbia. [Nikola Barbutov/SETimes]