“Although we could speak on this topic for hours, from a perspective of a researcher I can say that speaking of the Serbian context, we have a good legal framework, unfortunately we do not have that in practice. Hybrid attacks are pretty much present, especially the huge growth of racism, nationalism, hate speech, hate crimes. But, unfortunately, when you see that in the paper, everything is fine, everything can be prosecuted. Especially speaking in the case of minorities. In practice very few cases have seen their end, have seen their justice”, said Amina Shemsovich at Conference: Attacks on democracy and human rights: Civil society organizations in support of Western Balkans societies facing disinformation, hate speech and hybrid attacks, organized by CIVIL in cooperation with Balkan Forum and members of the Civil Society Platform for Democracy and Human Rights (CSP).
In our experience, mentioned Shemsovich, when we talk about media and media landscape, I can say that unfortunately I have not seen cases that have their justice in court.
“That is unfortunate. Maybe you have caught on the news that Serbia, according to the Freedom House Report, is not considered a democracy anymore. So we have to also consider a little about these problems that are considered to be smaller than the problems we had currently, we had way bigger scandals and affairs, so when we activists talk about this we are not considered as seriously as we should be, unfortunately.”, noted Amina Shemsovich, on Wednesday (7.28.2021), Skopje..
