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YIHR hopes that this judgment will represent a turning point not only in judicial practice, but also in terms of change of public perception of those who are spreading hatred and inspire violence. Court decisions are the foundation of the state of law, but an immediate and efficient condemnation from the public is necessary, too. Only in that way our society would clearly show that it is not on the side of those spreading hatred, intolerance and lies, and thus build resistance, immunity \u2013 and never again allow such level of hatred which had resulted in violence, wars and tragedies in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, on February 1, the Informer Daily published an article titled <\/span>\u201cWar on Foreign Mercenaries\u201d and the lede stating \u201cSerbian Government must apply laws that are in force in the USA and ban the work of NGO agents receiving millions of euros from the West to incite conflicts, divisions and chaos in the country\u201d and \u201cthus once and for all get in the way of organizations such as Soros-Shiptar-Fascist Youth Initiative for Human Rights.\u201d <\/b>Further in the article it is also stated that \u201c<\/span>Western NGOs in Serbia are foreign mercenaries working in the interest of their financiers, and very often contrary to the interests of Serbia. For this reason they are traitors of their country\u2026.<\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The court has properly characterized this as a hate speech, rejecting disgraceful argumentation of the defence counsel that qualifying someone as \u201ca traitor\u201d or \u201cfascist organisation\u201d are the elements of style.<\/span><\/p>\n

YIHR reminds that only a few days before this article, within the same tabloid campaign, <\/span>far right group \u201cAlternative\u201d, composed of former members of neo-Nazi groups and volunteers from the war in Ukraine, pasted the messages of hatred on the door of the YIHR office and in the entire building in which it is located, thus expressing clear and open threat to the security of YIHR activists and staff<\/b>. YIHR has no knowledge of possible investigation, misdemeanour charges or indictment against persons recorded spreading threats on CCTV. The Higher Court in Belgrade mentioned this event in its judgment, although it did not link it directly to the article published in the Informer, but it still found that: \u201cit turns out from the very content of the posters placed on the front door of the office of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights on the said occasions, that statements such as \u201c<\/span>Soros-Shiptar-fascist organisation\u201d, \u201ctraitors\u201d and \u201cforeign mercenaries\u201d represent a reason for hate, intolerance and discrimination, and even violence in part of our society.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

In the context of current discussion in our public about pressures on court by media and civil society representatives, <\/span>YIHR calls on everyone to express public and clear support to this judgement<\/b>, although it is not final yet, because this do not amount to any forbidden pressure on court, but to the expression of an attitude and opinion of the public and maintaining the awareness of this society which must, on every possible occasion, clearly and openly state that it is against any hatred, against impunity and against the glorification of criminals. <\/span><\/p>\n

Full judgment in Serbian language available <\/b>here<\/b>.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Higher Court in Belgrade has issued today a first-instance judgment finding Dragan Vu\u010di\u0107evi\u0107, editor of the Informer Daily, guilty of violation of prohibition of hate speech in a lawsuit filed by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights.\r\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[1159,1160,1161,1118,1091],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Judgment which describes the labelling of activists as traitors as hate speech is encouraging - YIHR.rs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/a-judgment-which-describes-the-labelling-of-activists-as-traitors-as-hate-speech-is-encouraging\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Judgment which describes the labelling of activists as traitors as hate speech is encouraging - 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