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Serbia The Court of Appeal in Belgrade (Apelacioni sud u Beogradu) 2022 Serbia / The Court of Appeal in Belgrade / Kž 315/2022 Nationality Third country nationals The Higher Court in Valjevo (trial court) acquitted the defendant for continued incitement of national, racial, and religious hatred. The defendant was allegedly calling the Albanian owners of a bakery shop Shiptars, telling them that they could not run a business in Serbia and threatening to deport them to Kosovo and blast their shop. He was deterring the locals from shopping in their bakery. The trial court found that the defendant was not guilty as his actions did not result in severely… View more
Serbia The Court of Appeal in Belgrade (Apelacioni sud u Beogradu) 2022 Serbia / The Court of Appeal in Belgrade / Kž 978/2022 Nationality Third country nationals The Higher Court in Pančevo (trial court) convicted the defendant of incitement of national, racial, and religious hatred and intolerance and sentenced him to four-month prison term. The trial court found that the defendant, a Kosovo war veteran, was guilty of vandalizing a bakery shop owned by an Albanian, thus inciting hatred among Serbs and Albanians in the local community. The trial court ordered defendant’s treatment in a psychiatric ward and issued a restraining order. The defendant… View more
Serbia The Misdemeanor Court in Belgrade (Prekršajni sud u Beogradu) 2022 Serbia / The Misdemeanor Court in Belgrade / 114 Pr. 19357/22 Race/Ethnicity Muslims The NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) filed a complaint with the public prosecutor and misdeamenor court against a group of sport fans for hate speech in violation of the law prohibiting neofascist manifestations. Ahead of a water polo game, the group of sport fans gathered in Belgrade city center and sang “Ratko Mladic is a Serbian hero” thus praising a perpetrator of genocide against Bosnian Muslims. The group moved to the sport hall and held a banner “Shiptars, Croats, and… View more
Serbia Press Council (Savet za štampu) 2017 Serbia/ Independent Body/Press Council Hajdrudin Šerifović v. "Pelež" Religion Muslims The newspaper “Pelež“ targeted Mr. Hajrudin Šerifović, a war veteran from Obrenovac, by criticizing his taking part in public protests against the Serbian Government. According to two articles published by “Pelež”, Mr. Šerifović was allegedly breeding unprecedented Islamic nationalism in Serbia. He was also blamed for spreading inter-ethnic and religious hatred since he requested on his Facebook account a construction of a local Muslim graveyard. View more
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