Nine activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights and My Initiative Activists’ Movement were physically assaulted on January 17th in Beška Municipality in Vojvodina, (northern province of Serbia) during public debate organized by the Government ruling party – Serbian Progressive Party. These activists were beaten at the debate while protesting against the fact that convicted war criminal Veselin Šljivančanin* was speaker at the debate held in local Cultural Center.
Dear friends,
In front of you, there is a new issue of YIHR newsletter where you can find everything we did from May until October, 2016.
The most important moment in this period was most definitely the Regional Youth Cooperation Office Agreement which was signed by Prime Ministers of six Western Balkans countries on July 4th in Paris.
In respect to a Youweeks-long debate about the morality of Slobodan Milosevic’s politics, an idea to honor him by building a monument to him in Serbia as well as President Nikolic's statement that “this monument wouldn’t survive long because it would be vandalized by self-proclaimed democrats' YIHR issues the following declaration:
The report “Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty in Serbian Prison System” was written in the scope of „Building free of torture and impunity societies in the Western Balkans“ project.
In the new issue of YIHR Newsletter you can find everything about our activities since November 2015 until April 2016. Read about all actions, reports, programs, youth exchanges, protests and all other thing that were in our focus in these six months.
