The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights condemns with disgust the pogrom on Serbs which is going on in many places in Kosovo. Attacks against persons, dwellings and shrines cannot be considered as transgressions of irresponsible individuals but as a part of the implementation of a previously existing plan. Politicians and other leaders of the Albanian community must feel responsible for this new attempt to expel Serbs and other non-Albanians, whish is in stark contrast to their promises that minorities in Kosovo would be protected and to their appeals to Serbs to return thereto, which now sound utterly hypocritical. (more…)

Two American organisations for the protection of human rights and a group of prominent lawyers from all around the world addressed the US Supreme Court asking for the legal protection for prisoners in the American naval base in Guantanamo. The Center for Justice and Responsibility and the International League for Human Rights, along with seventeen lawyers, among  them Professor Vojin Dimitrijević, Director of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, addressed the court by amicus curie statement. They intervened on behalf of the accused in the procedure brought against the group of prisoners of war from the conflict in Afghanistan, demanding legal protection for their rights. The courts in America declared the case inadmisible claiming that the Guantanamo base territory formally belongs to Cuba. In appeallingthis decision it is said that the prisoners of war are under the US jurisdiction according to all international standards and that their human rights must not remain without legal protection.