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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia threatened and subject to smear campaign
09/10-2008
- Sonja Biserko, the head of the Helsinki Committee for human rights in Serbia was physically threatened on Sunday 5 October. Two persons were waiting for her in front of her apartment in Belgrade. She discovered the ambush just in time and was able to alert friends about the situation.
Since mid-September, the Committee has been subject to a smear campaign in the media. Biserko has been called a fascist, a communist and as so many times before, an enemy of Serbhood. According to the Committee the smear campaign has been an attempt to mobilize the public to react violently, in line with this, some websites and tabloids published Biserko’s home address.
-The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is concerned about her security, said Secretary-General Bjørn Engesland. On Friday 3 October an ultra-nationalist group demonstrating against the arrest and extradition of Radovan Karadzic tagged the entrance to the office of the Helsinki Committee with a swastika.
Most of the hateful and unreasonable criticisms have been based on a misrepresentation of the Committee’s 2007 annual report. The report, which was published in May 2008, carried the title ”Self-Isolation. Reality and the Goal”.
Read the annual report Read The Helsinki Committee of Serbia's own account of the smear campaign Read letter of support from other NGOs in Serbia
- Sonja Biserko, the head of the Helsinki Committee for human rights in Serbia was physically threatened on Sunday 5 October. Two persons were waiting for her in front of her apartment in Belgrade. She discovered the ambush just in time and was able to alert friends about the situation. Since mid-September, the Committee has been subject to a smear campaign in the media. Biserko has been called a fascist, a communist and as so many times before, an enemy of Serbhood. According to the Committee the smear campaign has been an attempt to mobilize the public to react violently, in line with this, some websites and tabloids published Biserko’s home address.
-The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is concerned about her security, said Secretary-General Bjørn Engesland. On Friday 3 October an ultra-nationalist group demonstrating against the arrest and extradition of Radovan Karadzic tagged the entrance to the office of the Helsinki Committee with a swastika.
Most of the hateful and unreasonable criticisms have been based on a misrepresentation of the Committee’s 2007 annual report. The report, which was published in May 2008, carried the title ”Self-Isolation. Reality and the Goal”.
Read the annual report Read The Helsinki Committee of Serbia's own account of the smear campaign Read letter of support from other NGOs in Serbia
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