Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

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Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006treatment and to draw conclusion about regular and irregular conduct ofauthorized persons” 1129 .After that, representation of the Slavkovic family in repeated procedurein front of the Municipal Court in Nis was taken over by the Initiative’sattorney. The repeated procedure in this case is underway.ConclusionsThe Youth Initiative for Human Rights drew the following conclusionsduring investigations of human rights violations and authorized court legalcases against those who were held responsible during year 2006. Focusingon free access to public information, inciting of racial, religious and nationalhatred, discord and intolerance, rehabilitation right, hate-speech and policetortures:• Legal mechanisms, serving to protect civil rights to have free access topublic information, excluding institution of commissioners for publicinformation, do not function;• Ministry of Culture is the public body obliged by Law on Free Accessto Information to supervise implementation of this law which, evenafter two years from coming into force, has not pressed any chargesagainst persons responsible for law violation regardless of 222 offencesof noncompliance with law submitted by the commissioner.• The Serbian government is obliged to conduct commissioner’s decisions.The Initiative, in the case of the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA),submitted request on May 29 th , 2006 to the Serbian government to try toimplement commissioner’s decisions and get to the Initiative necessaryinformation from BIA, what has not been done by the government tillNovember, 2006.• Authorized courts in Serbia, city and municipal departments formisdemeanors, not even after two years from coming into force andafter ten requests for instituting offense procedures filed by Initiative,did not institute any proceedings for violation of the Law on FreeAccess to Information;• BIA neither respects the Law on Free Access to Information norcommissioners’ Supreme Court decisions1129 Ibid194
Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006• Zivota Milovanovic, Brahman of Hare Krishna religious communitywas attacked four times between 2001 and 2006 when he suffered severebody injuries. The Secretariat of Interior in Jagodina has not foundtill now perpetrators of these criminal offences and District Attorney’sOffice has not pressed any charges due to mentioned incidents;• The District Attorney’s Office, together with municipal and districtcourts in Pozarevac, investigated the case of Anis Masovic’s beatingon religious grounds during his military service in Pozarevac in theSopot barracks. This fact shows inefficiency and lack of readiness ofmentioned institutions to process persons responsible for inciting racial,religious and national hatred and intolerance;• The Jagodina District Court, after seven months from the Initiative’srehabilitation request for Senad Sljivo, set up the date for the hearing inthis case;• “Hate speech” often appears in the media reports in Serbia, especiallyin daily papers GLAS JAVNOSTI and KURIR. The Belgrade DistrictAttorney’s Office believes that words uttered by Serbian Radical PartyMP Zoran Krasic “that Agriculture Minister Ivana Dulic Markovic is anexample how Ustashas are dragged into the government... close relativesof the lady in question bragged how they took part in Statehood Warand made considerable contribution….. Minister Dulic-Markovicexclusively chooses her associates among “her Ustashas”, in front ofthe stand do not represent incitement of racial, religious and nationalhatred and intolerance;• Police torture exists in the police in Serbia. It happens very oftenthat after police tortures, victims are accused of disturbing officers inexecuting security actions. Investigating judges always trust the policeover the victims and medical records.RecommendationsThe Youth Initiative for Human Rights drew the following conclusionsduring the investigations of human rights violations and authorized courtlegal cases against those who were held responsible during year 2006focusing on free access to public information, inciting racial, religious andnational hatred, discord and intolerance, rehabilitation right, hate speechand police tortures:195
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