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Jovanović: Violence against civil society institutionalized in Republika Srpska
February 28, 2025. Written by: Uroš Jovanović, manager of the Program for Public Policy in Civic Initiatives Associations and foundations in the Republika Srpska entity will bear the label of agents of foreign influence if they provide funds for their work from abroad and if they advocate for better laws towards the institutions of this […]
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Non-governmental organizations: The authorities in Serbia use the opportunity to deal with non-governmental organizations that have been pointing to corruption, law-breaking and human rights violations for years.
Joint statement of civil society organizations We strongly condemn today’s invasion of the premises of non-governmental organizations by armed police without a proper court order. The Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade announced today that the reason for the police raid in four civil society organizations was the suspicions “that were raised against USAID in […]
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Police raid in Civic Initiatives
Belgrade, February 25, 2025. Around 9:20 this morning, twenty police officers from the Criminal Police Directorate broke into the premises of Civic Initiatives, stating that they had a warrant from the Prosecutor’s Office to check the organization’s work, but they did not want to show the search warrant. At the same time, in the House […]
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Decision on the suspension of cooperation with the legislative and executive authorities in Serbia
Since the beginning of the student protests, we have publicly and unequivocally supported all their demands. Since the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad on November 1 last year, we have been deeply shaken by the suffering of innocent people, the violence we are witnessing, as well as the actions of institutions that, instead […]
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Candidates for the REM Council withdrew their candidacies due to irregularities in the election process
Belgrade, January 26, 2025. Text: Cenzolovka Six independent candidates announced today that they are withdrawing their candidacies due to violations of the Law on Electronic Media during this process, because both proposers and candidates who do not meet the legal requirements were accepted, as well as because of discrimination against candidates. This was done earlier […]
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