Serbia

05.08.2008 The Coalition for Free Access to Information asked the National Telecommunications Agency (RATEL) to review the contents of the Regulation that defines the new activities for internet service providers (ISPs) in Serbia who will be now obligated to keep the data on the traffic of their users and present it to the competent authorities.

01.08.2008 Radovan Karadžić, until recently one of the three remaining Hague fugitives, together with general Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, was extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and already appeared in front of the Chamber to listen to the charges.

30.07.2008 Internet service providers in Serbia announce they will challenge in the Supreme Court the decision of the National Telecommunications Agency (Ratel) that providers are obligated to allow unrestricted access to their e-mail clients` databases to the Police and the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA).

29.07.2008 Human Rights Lawyer`s Committee YUCOM condemned the rampaging of extremist right wing groups in the streets of Belgrade and the attacks on journalists during the gathering organized to support the Hague suspect Radovan Karadžić, as serious abuse of freedom of expression and public gathering.

28.07.2008 RATEL (National Telecommunications Agency of Serbia) adopted on July 11 new By-Law that enables intrusion in human rights and freedoms and requires from internet service providers to own equipment for passive oversight and monitoring of electronic mail with possibility to reroute it to the proper competent authorities.

24.07.2008 Two days after the arrest of Radovan Kara Karadžić, one of the three remaining Hagua fugitives accused by the Hague Tribunal on nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, we have the first reactions of the Serbian civil sector.

22.07.2008 Radovan Karadžić, one of the three remaining `the Hague fugitives` (together with Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić), who faces war crimes and crimes against humanity charges at the Internationl Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia for crimes committed during the Bosnian War 1992-1995, was arrested in Belgrade yesterday, after 12 years in hiding.

17.07.2008 To mark the European Year of Inter-Cultural Dialogue, the Youth NGO ONO from Novi Sad, in cooperation with the Youth Assistance Centre from Maribor, Slovenia, organized a youth exchange programme More Attention, Please!

14.07.2008 In a letter to the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lazăr Comănescu, and to the Serbian Minister of Labour and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić, Romano Them has strongly criticised the planned transfer of expertise between the two countries in the field of reintegration of forcibly repatriated Roma.

11.07.2008 The anti-nuclear campaign started in Croatia by two associations, a political party (the Green List) and the local government in Erdut Municipality gains on intensity and actually spreads outside the country, to Serbia where we hear of actual plans regarding nuclear power stations.