NGOs in Serbia: Regime and tabloids brand us foreign mercenaries, spies, liars
N1 Info 10.12.2018 | N1 Belgrade
The civil society organisations in Serbia said on Monday that human rights in the country were less and less respected, adding an analysis by The Civil Initiatives showed the space for their actions have been shrinking in the last four years, N1 reported.
Speaking on the occasion of the international Human Rights Day, they said the campaigns against individuals and NGOs had intensified. Human rights have been imperilled more often and those who fight for them have been in greater jeopardy every time they criticise the regime, the activists say. “It hasn’t been the case so often even during the rule of (late Serbia’s strongman) Slobodan Milosevic. We have had two aggravated assaults on the civil