{"id":1472,"date":"2025-08-21T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/three-freedoms-under-scrutiny-august-8-august-21-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:55:45","slug":"three-freedoms-under-scrutiny-august-8-august-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/en\/three-freedoms-under-scrutiny-august-8-august-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Three freedoms under scrutiny: August 8 &#8211; August 21, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Belgrade, August 21, 2025  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"line-height:1.5\">Violation of basic human rights in Serbia<br\/>August 8 &#8211; August 21, 2025  <\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Violence on the streets across Serbia has escalated in the last two weeks. At first, the SNS supporters started attacking the citizens, and then the police took over the baton and continued with the physical confrontation with the demonstrators. Pyrotechnic devices, oysters, tear gas, guns, armored vehicles, police brutality, threats of sexual violence, arrests, all this was recorded in just one week, which makes the observed period the most intense in the last 9 months of student and citizen protests.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, in addition to the regular bi-weekly report Three freedoms under scrutiny, we also bring you a Three freedoms special in which the escalation of repression and violence to which citizens are exposed is described. This review serves to document the brutal violence that we are witnessing, which is carried out under the direction of the authorities against protesting citizens. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about these and other cases recorded in the previous period, see the full report below:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d6ef826e-9bc0-4817-8ff8-375fda14426e\" href=\"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/en\/?ttf_download=1469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"file-download__link fl-pdf\">CASES OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN SERBIA AUGUST 8 &#8211; AUGUST 21, 2025   <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/en\/?ttf_download=1469\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button file-download__link fl-pdf\" download=\"\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d6ef826e-9bc0-4817-8ff8-375fda14426e\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a8288010-f142-4658-b7ef-c0df569e2af4\" href=\"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/en\/?ttf_download=1470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"file-download__link fl-pdf\">THREE FREEDOMS SPECIAL &#8211; ESCALATION OF REPRESSION AND VIOLENCE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gradjanske.vuksha.com\/en\/?ttf_download=1470\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button file-download__link fl-pdf\" download=\"\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-a8288010-f142-4658-b7ef-c0df569e2af4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgrade, August 21, 2025 Violation of basic human rights in SerbiaAugust 8 &#8211; August 21, 2025 Violence on the streets across Serbia has escalated in the last two weeks. At first, the SNS supporters started attacking the citizens, and then the police took over the baton and continued with the physical confrontation with the demonstrators. 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