Lora Vidovic

As Croatian MPs discussed a proposed law amendment, that would allow authorities easier access to citizens' information amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, opposition lawmakers warned that it could limit citizens' rights to freedom of movement and their privacy.

The Croatian President, government ministers, LGBT rights groups and the Ombudsperson on Monday all condemned the burning of an effigy of a kissing same-sex couple and their child at a Dalmatian carnival, calling it a hateful act. The image was torched at Sunday's traditional carnival in the small town of Imotski in the Dalmatian Hinterland.

Croatian Ombudsperson Lora Vidovic on Tuesday said that if police failed to initiate legal action against former members of a paramilitary unit, who on Monday celebrated the anniversary of Operation Storm by chanting the Fascist slogan "Za dom spremni", it will be a blatant violation of the legal order.

Croatian police have denied separating a Syrian migrant from his young daughter - after he issued a call for help over the weekend in finding his five-year-old daughter, who he says is now stuck in Croatia while he is back in Bosnia.

He claims the Croatian police separated him from his daughter, which the Croatian police have denied.

Serbian Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has written to his Croatian counterpart Lora Vidovic propmpted by the decision of Vukovar in Croatia to ban bilingual signs.

The city authorities' decision concerns the use of Serbian Cyrillic - the alphabet of the town's Serb minority.