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The Regional Centre for Minorities reported one case of physical assault against two students by a group.
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National developments
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.
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The European Roma Rights Centre and the Regional Centre for Minorities reported an assault carried out by a group against a group of Roma people, also involving graffiti on the container they were living in.
The Regional Centre for Minorities reported a further four cases of graffiti on property, including one on a school attended mainly by Roma children, one on a container inhabited by a Roma family, one on a monument to a Roma musician and one on a Roma family’s house; and two physical assaults including one against Roma children.
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LABRIS and the Gay Straight Alliance reported four cases of physical assault, three of which were carried out by a group and two of which resulted in serious injury. The victims were gay men and one lesbian woman.
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ODIHR Recommendations
ODIHR observes that Serbia has not reported on hate crimes separately from cases of hate speech.
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Serbia introduced and passed its first hate crime law by adopting a general penalty enhancement provision that allows the judge to consider it an aggravating circumstance when the crime is “is based on hatred for another person’s race, religion, national or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.”
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Official figures record 28 hate crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia. Twelve assaults were committed, one of which was attempted murder. Ten were graffiti cases and six were cases of threats.
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Official figures record three cases of verbal threats against Roma.
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Official figures record one case of cemetery desecration, resulting in destruction of 39 tombstones.
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Official figures record three cases of threats to Muslims – two verbal and one anonymous.
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Serbia reported a case in which the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was damaged and the perpetrators were apprehended and convicted, with a suspended sentence, and ordered to pay for the damage.
