HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY VIOLATION
Early Warning
Weekly Newsletter No. 48
Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) and Helsinki Committee for
Human Rifgts in Serbia (HOPS) filed with the District Attorney (Prosecutor) in Belgrade
April 1, 2009 a lawsuit against Dobrica Cosic , charging him with inciting ethnic, racial
and religious hatred and intolerance, as stipulated by §317, para. 1, as well as by
§387, para. 3 of the Penal Code of the Republic of Serbia, citing "Racial and other
discrimination", since in his book "The Time of Serpents - Writer's Notes
1999-2000" Dobrica Cosic wrote about the Albanian people, inter alia: "That
social, political and moral dreg of a tribal, barbarian Balkans, allies itself with
America and the European Union in their struggle against the most democratic, most
civilized, most enlightened Balkan people - the Serbian people." The two
organizations underline that the... MS Word (246kb) >>> |
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