On the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the saving of more than 220 Varaždin Yugoslav People’s Army recruits, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) demands from the city of Belgrade to build a monument in honor of the late General Vlado Trifunović. For over 25 years, he was branded as a traitor in Serbia, and a war criminal in Croatia and Slovenia, because of his choice to save lives.
The Misdemeanour Court in Ruma, department in Indjija, convicted 8 activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights for violating the Law on Public Order and Peace to fines of 50,000 dinars, for protesting at an event in Beska, where a convicted war criminal Veselin Sljivancanin was a speaker, by unfurling the banner "War criminals to remain silent, in order for victims to speak out" and blowing whistles.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights demands that the judicial authorities prosecute and the executive authorities unequivocally condemn the actions of Vjerica Radeta, as well as of Vojislav Šešelj, who are grossly disregarding victims and offending victims’ families by publicly denying the genocide in Srebrenica.
The Higher Court in Belgrade has issued today a first-instance judgment finding Dragan Vučićević, editor of the Informer Daily, guilty of violation of prohibition of hate speech in a lawsuit filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.
Today, Youth Initiative for Human Rights’ activists have painted over the graffiti with the image of Ratko Mladić, former Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Republic of Srpska, convicted in the first instance to life imprisonment for war crimes throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina and for genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995. The graffiti were placed on several locations in the towns of Bor and Bačka Palanka.
