Dear colleagues,
The Committee for human rights – Leskovac, south of
During 2007, as far as individual cases are concerned,
and obstacles we faced, we want to point our that the president of the
Committee for human rights, Leskovac, Dobrosav Nesic, and the lawyer of the
Committee, Dragutin Vidosavljevic faced concrete threats to their lives,
property and bodies as ordered by an oligarchy group that rules Leskovac’s
administration of justice. This, we believe, happened because of the fact that
they revealed and presented to the public and competent services in charge the evidence
about the existence of a juristic gang in Leskovac’s administration of justice
which in control of the oligarchy group on the local and republican level. The
information they got from a reliable source about this case, they reported to the
police and the police provided physical protection for a while in terms of
surveillance on their homes.
In 2008, against the president of the Committee for
human rights, the lawyer of the Committee and a journalist of the daily papers
Blic, Milica Ivanovic, there has been a criminal proceeding K- no 317/07 by one
of the persons who privatized Leskovac’s administration of justice, and against
whom there is a criminal proceeding for 11 criminal charges as a consequence of
the work of the oligarchy group. The reason for the criminal proceeding against
Nesic, Vidosavljevic and Ivanovic lies in the fact they published the
information of the existence of the oligarchy group and their methods of work.
As far as the practice of protection of human rights
defenders and creating the surrounding for their work on the republican level
in
There is a tendency, proved in practice, that the
Republican authorities lead an organized and systematic approach to put into
the second plan NGOs that were affirmed during a number of years of existence
as human rights defenders, and to put into the first plan newly formed
so-called NGOs close to the authorities which represent the interest of certain political groups
and these so-called NGOs are actually pro-governmental organizations working
under the government’s surveillance. This leads to an absurd fact that the
domestic authentic NGOs which, on the human rights protection have been working
for a long period, are more recognized and their work
more respected abroad than in
As far as the second part is concerned and the
involvement of the Republic of Serbia in the work of the Committee for human
rights in Serbia we want to stress that the government of the Republic of
Serbia not even with a single gesture has helped or by any other means, from
April 2007 until April 2008, supported the work of the Committee. On the
contrary, they are doing everything to suffocate or minimize the work of the
Committee which is seen in the fact that from the means given to support legal
help in Serbia through UNDP, the Committee for human rights – which has been
working for more than 10 years in providing legal help to people whose human
rights, acknowledged by the International instruments, are endangered or
violated, and has concrete results in this field, has not been given a single dinar,
while the means are given to virtual organizations.
Also, we want to point out that in this Serbia today,
in the government, neither is there conscience about the term of human
rights defender, the core of this term, nor of the importance of our work on
the implementation of the international norms of the humanitarian law in
practice and creating a real surrounding
for affirmation of citizens of Serbia as a subject of law, in stead of the
object of domination as they are now.
As far as the third part is concerned, we want to say
that by working
analytically for years on the protection and affirmation of human rights
acknowledged by the UN Declaration about human rights and the accompanying
instruments, EU Convention on protection of human rights and basic
freedoms we concluded based on the
evidence and concrete written proof there is a several-membered organized
criminal gang in the administration of justice in Jablanica district. This gang
has privatized the administration of justice and turned it into a market place
on which they freely trade with human destinies and properties. We notified the
president of the Supreme Court of Serbia – Vida Petrovic-Skero, Minister of
Justice – Dusan Petrovic and republican public prosecutor but so far we have not
received any replies. However, the criminal proceeding was started against one
lawyer for 11 crimes, which, he could not have done without being helped by
some judges. In this case the state suffered damage of at least 850.000 euros.
These show us that the government in
Yours truly,
Dobrosav Nesic