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12 years 5 months
Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
10
Cases Prosecuted
14
Cases Recorded by Police
86
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Reported police, prosecution and sentencing figures include the offences of hate speech, discrimination and violation of equality, which fall outside of the OSCE's definition of hate crime.
NPC
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Developments
Organization Report

In 2019, the National Strategy for Exercising the Rights of Victims and Witnesses of Crimes, for the period 2019-2025, as well as the Action Plan for the first three years of the Strategy's implementation were drafted.

The Public Prosecutor's Office, the Judicial Academy and the OSCE Mission to Serbia continued organizing training events for public prosecutors in 2019, with the aim of improving the investigation and prosecution of hate crimes. These events included the presentation of the Guidelines for the prosecution of hate crimes in the Republic of Serbia, developed jointly by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and civil society representatives, as well as examples of practical actions of the competent bodies concerning hate crimes, and the practice of the European Court of Human Rights.

ODIHR Recommendations

ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of Serbia have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.