Vuckovic, Bisevac trial to resume in Kosovska Mitrovica
The trial of Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac on the charge of genocide resumes in Kosovska Mitrovica on 25 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia.
The trial of Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac on the charge of genocide resumes in Kosovska Mitrovica on 25 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia.
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It is easier to breathe in Serbia now. I recently saw a policeman beating a hasty retreat down the street, running as if his life was at stake. The young man he was running from explained to bypassers that he had done nothing to the policeman, merely asked how come he felt free to walk around in public. People laughed and said, “Right, we’ll show them we are the boss now.”
Fond za humanitarno pravo
Human Rights Watch
Ovaj memorandum se bavi pitanjem kosovskih Albanaca – političkih zatvorenika – u Srbiji. Novi predsednik Jugoslavije Vojislav Koštunica obavezao se da će poštovati ljudska prava i raditi na uspostavljanju vladavine prava u Jugoslaviji. Ispravljanje slučajeva u kojima je pravda izostala, poput slučajeva zatvorenih kosovskih Albanaca, pokazalo bi rešenost da se ovo obećanje ispuni.
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Fond za humanitarno pravo (FHP) najoštrije protestuje zbog naopravdanog odlaganja suđenja Flori Brovini i njenog daljeg zadržavanja u pritvoru. Na današnjem pretresu nisu se pojavili predsednik Sudskog veća, sudija Marina Milanović i član veća, sudija Dragoljub Zdravković, oboje sa Kosova. Branioci Flore Brovine zatražili su njihove izuzeće zbog opstrukcije rada sudskih organa i pristrasnosti.
Suđenje albanskoj lekarki i pesnikinji Flori Brovini održaće se 12. oktobra pred Okružnim sudom u Nišu.
Brovina je prvobitnom presudom tog suda u decembru prošle godine osuđena na 12 godina zatvora zbog udruživanja radi neprijateljske delatnosti u vezi sa krivičnim delom terorizma.
Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center, is the recipient of this year’s Pen of Truth award of the HAS magazine and Damad Cultural Center in Novi Pazar.
Previous laureates of the award, given for results achieved in affirming truth and democracy in society, are authors Milika Pavlovic and Husein Basic, and Sefko Alomerovic, the Chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Sandjak.
The plaque and cash prize will be presented to Ms Kandic at a ceremony in Novi Pazar later this month.
Natasa Kandic, founder and executive director of the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Center, received the Civic Courage Award established this year by the US Northcote Parkinson Fund. The award, which is given to persons “who resisted evil in spite of great risk,” was presented to Ms Kandic on 26 September at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. The award includes a cash prize of 50,000 US dollars.
A special Northcote Parkinson cash prize will be presented to Sergei Khodorovich, formerly of the Russian Social Fund, an organization established by the famous Russian writer and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The award was given posthumously to German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a victim of Nazism, Judge Giovanni Falcone for his unflinching struggle against the Sicilian mafia, attorney Rosemary Nelson, who was assassinated while defending political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Neelan Tiruchelvam, a Sri Lankan peace activist who was killed by extremists last year, and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved many Jews from Nazi persecution.
The stepped-up violence by the Serbian and FR Yugoslavia authorities against political opponents following the calling of the presidential and federal elections threatened fundamental human rights and liberties. The election campaign in Serbia is marked by daily arrests of activists of the Otpor (Resistance) movement, non-governmental organizations, and members of opposition political parties.
Research by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) brought out that about 2,500 persons were detained by police from early May to mid-September, of whom 2,000 Otpor activists, 400 opposition party members, and 100 activists of non-governmental organizations. The majority were up to 25 years old and included about 200 minors between the ages of 16 and 18. Some 300 Otpor activists were detained five or more times. Information gathered by the HLC indicates that police took in about 20 Otpor activists and other active participants in the election campaign every day from 1-15 September. Cases of police brutality against Otpor activists and others were also registered; 19 persons were physically abused in this period alone. Police raided Otpor offices and non-governmental organizations, seizing computers, address books, and lists of associates. The number of physical assaults by private citizens on Otpor activists and others involved in the election campaign of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), Otpor’s campaign “He’s Finished,” and the “It’s Time” campaign of non-governmental organizations also rose noticeably.
The formal reasons for the massive police action against Otpor were the 2 May incident in Požarevac when three Otpor activists were arrested for allegedly attempting to murder a member of the Yugoslav Left (JUL) party, and the murder of Boško Perošević, the President of the Executive Council of Vojvodina and ranking official of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), in Novi Sad on 13 May. Without any grounds, the police used the murder of Perošević as an excuse to detain Otpor activists and opposition party members in great number and to search their homes. The police action against Otpor activists further intensified on 9 June when the Federal Ministry of Justice refused to enter Otpor in the Register of Associations, in contravention of the constitutional principles and guarantees of fundamental human rights and liberties. With this decision, the authorities demonstrated their readiness to eliminate an entire generation of young people from social and political life. Described as a group which acts against national security interests, these young people were consigned to the police to deal with.