Human rights in Serbia

LGBT community targeted in Serbia, Hungary, Romania

Following the dramatic uptick in digital attacks targeting LGBT communities in the region caused by the announcement of Pride parades in several Balkan countries, anti-LGBT sentiment and homophobic incidents have not abated.

Two US Congressmen nominated human rights campaigner Natasa Kandic and Serbia’s Humanitarian Law Centre, which documents violations committed during the Yugoslav wars, for the prestigious prize.

Croatia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from Tomislav Mercep, a former interior ministry official and alleged head of a police unit that killed Serb civilians, against his war crimes convictions.

The Interior Ministry of the Serb entity (RS) has filed "a report against four known and two unknown persons" in connection with the Potocari incident.

The incident concerns the attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic during last year's Srebrenica commemorations. Vucic was first verbally abused and then attacked with stones.

After Serbian premier Aleksandar Vucic was attacked in Srebrenica, leaders from both countries met in Belgrade and pledged to work together to put past disputes behind them.

Serbia has called for a thorough investigation into who threw stones and water bottles at Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Srebrenica - an act that the Serbian Foreign Minister called 'attempted murder'.

Anger boiled over July 11 at a massive commemoration of the Srebrenica massacre 20 years ago as people pelted Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with water bottles and other objects.
                   

"Differences, LGBT rights need to be respected"

BELGRADE -- A total of seven physical and 12 verbal assaults on members of the LGBT community happened in Serbia in 2014, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

The police intervened and filed 10 reports to the competent prosecutor's office, he added.

BELGRADE - A total of seven physical and 12 verbal assaults on members of the LGBT community happened in Serbia in 2014, police intervened and filed 10 reports to the competent prosecutor's office, Serbian Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday.

During the same period, 66 threats against the LGBT community were made over social networks, he said.

BRUSSELS/BELGRADE- Bojan Patic, president of the Democratic Party (DS), underlined at meeting with European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister that the EU enlargement must not come to a halt, and urged the opening of the association negotiations with Serbia as soon as possible.