Abduction at Štrpci – fifteen Years on

On Wednesday, 27 February, it will be 15 years since the kidnapping and killing of 18 Bosniaks and one Croat, all citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, who travelled on the Belgrade-Bar train. Only one perpetrator has been convicted of this crime. Families are still searching for the bodies of their closest family members.


Serbia not safe for Human Rights Defenders

On 21 February 2008, around 22:00, after the protest against the independence of Kosovo, unidentified persons threw a flare at, and damaged, the doorstep and the door of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) office. The security guard of the company next door to the HLC office prevented the fire from spreading; putting out the fire after the attackers left the scene. HLC heard from eyewitnesses that police conducted an investigation into this event the same night around midnight. Even though HLC had asked the police, through the office of Police Director Milorad Veljović, to provide security for the HLC office, not a single police officer could be seen either during or after the protest or the mass held at the St. Sava Temple located in the vicinity of the HLC office.


Threats against human rights defenders and organisations in Serbia, in the context of official declaration of Kosovo’s independence

Your Excellency,

Front Line is deeply concerned following information received of threats against human rights defenders, including Natasa Kandic, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre, and human rights organisations operating in Serbia, in the context of the official declaration of Kosovo’s independence.


NED Calls on Serbian Government to Protect Human Rights Defenders and Journalists

Stockholm, Washington, Utrecht
20 February 2008

Dear Sirs,

We would like to express our deepest concern about the latest threats on human rights defenders in Serbia, as well as the failure to arrest and bring to justice attackers on journalists, artists, and others who express different opinions on issues facing Serbia today.


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