Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia

Islamist extremism in Serbia is decreasing but far-right extremism is on the rise, according to research by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, BCBP, and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, presented on Friday.

Izabela Kisic, executive director of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, said there were "huge differences" in the punishments handed down against Serbian citizens convicted of joining Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and those who fought on the side of Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.

For two days in a row, the front pages of Informer have showcased Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj's allegations that three female civil rights activists have been conducting espionage on behalf of Croatia and other countries' foreign intelligence services.

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia president believes the Serbian PM has put pressure on the president of the RS, the Serb entity in Bosnia.

The EU need to be more proactive in solving the crisis in Macedonia and abandon its "technocratic approach", speakers told a conference called "The potential internal instability in the Republic of Macedonia" on Wednesday in Belgrade.

"Cultural heritage in Kosovo will be better protected if Kosovo joined UNESCO," Sonja Biserko has said.

BELGRADE - Civil society organizations (CSOs) overseeing the work of public institutions and the media in Serbia demanded Friday from the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate pre-investigation proceedings and check all allegations by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) about abuses in the Serbian government's tender for pumping water from a mine at the Kolubara coal bas

BELGRADE - There are no systemic forms of torture in Serbian prisons, but the conditions in them are inhumane due to overcrowding, a conference on the results of a study conducted by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia was told on Friday.

"Šešelj is symbol of ethnic cleansing"

BELGRADE -- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia President Sonja Biserko says SRS party leader Vojislav Šešelj is "a symbol of ethnic cleansing."

House of Human Rights opened in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- The reconstructed House of Human Rights and Democracy opened in Belgrade on Thursday.