{"id":8760,"date":"2020-03-02T21:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2020-03-09T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T20:28:42","slug":"authorities-to-urgently-react-to-homophobia-in-leskovac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/authorities-to-urgently-react-to-homophobia-in-leskovac\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities to Urgently React to Homophobia in Leskovac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As reported by portals <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ju\u017ene vesti<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and N1, <\/span><b>a group of around 200 secondary school pupils has gathered today in the centre of Leskovac with intention to prevent the Pride Parade<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The fake news came from Facebook; namely, on Sunday night, the news appeared on the Facebook that the Pride Parade would allegedly take place the next day at 13.00 o\u2019clock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the gathering, where insulting and abusive slogans aimed at the LGBT+ community could be heard, <\/span><b>a <\/b><b><i>Jug media<\/i><\/b><b> correspondent was physically attacked<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while attempting to photograph the protesters, while the correspondent of the BETA news agency was attacked when she tried to record the gathering by her phone. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JUGpress<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> journalist was also verbally attacked and insulted for filming the gathering without the reaction from the police officers who were standing there.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8760-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"384\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0p8Fc2YcrSLDOhqW.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0p8Fc2YcrSLDOhqW.mp4\">https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0p8Fc2YcrSLDOhqW.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe that everyday attacks on <\/span><b>the LGBT+ community are inacceptable in a society where the executive authorities nominally keep repeating that they aim at EU membership<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while different marginalised groups are targeted by the extremists of all kinds.&nbsp; <\/span><b>Hatred, discrimination, violence and homophobia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> must be clearly stopped, not only through education and the prevention of violence, especially violence of young people, but also through clear messages of competent authorities that violence will be punished. Such gatherings of hatred are on the rise and the freedom of gathering is applied selectively. Thus, peace activists are paying fines for legitimate protests, while the extreme right, led by \u0160e\u0161elj, Vaci\u0107 and Bo\u0161ko Obradovi\u0107, holds the marches of hatred across Serbia and incite violence among the young people, while the highest state officials remain silent.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>This is only one out of many attacks on the LGBT+ community which occurred in the last couple of months. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us remind you, only two days ago, the Pride Info Centre in Belgrade was attacked for the eleventh time, when a group of young men was kicking the window and destroyed the lock at the front door and a part of inventory.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the <\/b><b><i>Da se zna!<\/i><\/b><b> organisation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are calling on the competent authorities to prosecute not only this, but all the other attacks on the LGBT+ community and protect their citizens, and thus send a message that violence in Serbia is punished in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juznevesti.com\/Hronika\/Napad-na-policiju-i-novinara-u-Leskovcu-na-protestu-posle-lazne-najave-o-paradi-ponosa.sr.html\">Ju\u017ene vesti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Da se zna! organisation strongly condemn violence of persons who gathered in Leskovac around fake news that the Pride Parade would take place in that town.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[1185,1094],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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