INFO PARK 17 – 23 June 2020
Serbia
➢ Anti-migrant rhetoric reached its peak on 20 June, World Refugee Day, when an antimigrant protest was organized in Belgrade downtown, as well as in Banja Koviljaca,in western Serbia. Despite repeated calls for action on social media in the days before the event, only around one hundred people gathered in Belgrade and 400 in Banja
Koviljaca, where an asylum center is located. They shouted anti-migrant and far right paroles and called for closure of refugee camps in Serbia, but no incidents were reported. Despite clear need for restriction of hate speech and drawing a clear line between hate speech and freedom of expression, which is the role of the state, such
rhetoric is allowed and unpunished, as is proven with this protest.
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