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.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Initiative) will hold a commemorative gathering for victims of genocide in Srebrenica on Wednesday, July the 11th, in the park next to the Presidency of Serbia, starting at 20.00.
Regarding the new threats by Miljan Damjanovic, deputy of the Serbian Radical Party in Serbian Parliament, that they will by all means prevent the festival "Mirëdita, Dobar dan!" to be held, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights invites the competent institutions to react.
