Donor: ECNL – European Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Duration: 1 January-15 June 2021
The ECNL (European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law) is extending support to the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights to implement activities regarding:
- Extension of legal aid to 18 victims of police ill-treatment during the July 2020 protests;
- Implementation of a survey on public awareness of human rights in case of arrest and ill-treatment by public officials and of public views of the effects of police brutality during the July protests on the realisation of the freedom of assembly;
- Preparation of an analysis on actions by the relevant authorities (public prosecution services, the police, the Protector of Citizens, et al) in response to individual complaints of police ill-treatment during the July 2020 protests in terms of the state’s duty to conduct thorough, urgent and impartial investigations;
- Preparation of an analysis of judicial and prosecutorial practices in torture and ill-treatment cases from 1 January 2018 to 30 June 2020;
- Development of public outreach materials on documenting torture and ill-treatment and the rights of persons deprived of liberty, which will be published and presented on social networks, in the press and on Internet portals;
- Development of legislative recommendations and initiatives to amend the law, which will be forwarded to the relevant authorities and the public;
- Development of a publication summarising the project results.
