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Amnesty International reported Thursday that the Serbian authorities employed Pegasus spyware against two investigative journalists in February 2025. Both journalists, from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), have a research focus on state-sponsored corruption. Both Serbian journalists received a Viber text on February 14 from an unknown number. The message contained a link, which Amnesty Security Lab [...]

Thousands protested in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Saturday in what is being called one of the country’s largest demonstrations in decades. Protesters demanded the publication of all documentation concerning the Novi Sad railway station roof collapse last November, which killed 15 people. The protest is the culmination of students, teachers, farmers and other ordinary citizens [...]

Serbia’s opposition lawmakers on Tuesday threw smoke grenades and tear gas inside the National Assembly to support demonstrating students. One legislator suffered a stroke during the chaos and three MPs were injured, and politicians were seen clashing with security on live footage. The opposition members defended their actions, stating that the government had refused to [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday welcomed the discontinuation of digital forensic equipment for some customers in Serbia. The move followed Amnesty International’s allegations that the technology was being misused against journalists and activists. Amnesty International says that the announcement reinforces its findings that “Serbian police and intelligence routinely misused Cellebrite’s digital forensic equipment outside legally sanctioned [...]

The UN Human Rights Committee found on Thursday that Albania violated the rights of three Roma children by failing to register their births, leaving them without legal recognition and at risk of statelessness. The three children, born in Greece to Albanian parents, could not be properly registered because the parents lacked residency status. At the [...]

Tens of thousands of students on Saturday protested in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, demanding justice for the victims of the November 2024 railway disaster. The protest, which lasted 15 hours and marked the culmination of a four-day student march, was symbolically named “Let’s Meet at Sretenje.” Kragujevac was the first capital of the modern [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for Rod Blagojevich on Monday. The former Illinois governor was impeached and convicted of corruption while in office. The pardon, made through the broad presidential authority outlined in Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the US Constitution, will officially negate Blagojevich’s conviction and expunge his criminal record. While [...]

Serbia’s Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation on Tuesday amid ongoing protests that have erupted since the deadly collapse of a railway station roof last November. Vucevic and his government will remain in office until a new prime minister is elected and a new government is formed. Milos Vucevic explained during a press conference [...]

Kosovo’s interior minister announced the closure of parallel institutions used by the country’s ethnic Serb minority on Wednesday, a move which was condemned by the European Union. Kosovo’s interior minister Xhelal Sveçla said that “the era of municipalities and parallel and criminal institutions of Serbia in the Republic of Kosovo” has ended, with 28 parallel [...]

Thousands of Serbia’s striking university students protested in front of the country’s Supreme Court on Sunday to oppose what they assert are violations of civil rights under the ruling populist government, including intimidation and threats. The protest commenced with thousands of people standing in silence for 15 minutes in commemoration for the victims of a [...]