Dijana Malbasa
Victims Discouraged by ‘Lenient’ Sentences for Sex Crimes in Serbia
He was one of at least 608 people convicted of sex crimes in Serbia between 2016 and 2020.
But eight years is more than many convicted rapists are jailed for in the Balkan country, where, according to a BIRN investigation of data for the last five years, half were sentenced to five years or less, five years being the minimum sentence under the law since 2017.