Belgrade, January 30, 2025
Violation of basic human rights in Serbia
January 17 – January 30, 2025
Two more female students were seriously injured in the previous period. This indicates a worrying trend of increasing extreme violence to which women engaged in activism are exposed. A student was hit by a car during the blockade on the day of the General Strike. The student hit her head on the curb and suffered serious injuries. On the day when the president of the state spoke declaratively about the necessity of dialogue, thugs attacked two groups of students from the premises of SNS and on that occasion beat one girl with baseball bats and injured her.
The struggle of male and female students, pupils and their professors, is the struggle of all of us. It is a fight against a corrupt system, a fight for the rule of law and the independence of institutions.
In the observed period, 13 foreign citizens who participated in workshops organized by the Erste Stiftung were expelled from Serbia. Their expulsion is a continuation of the pressure exerted by the security services on domestic, regional and foreign activists and should also be seen in the context of the government’s attempt to present legitimate student protests as an attempt to interfere with foreign factors in internal affairs.
For more information about these and other cases recorded in the previous period, see the full report below: