Our latest country update on 🇷🇸#Serbia covers six months of unprecedented protests: 🟥Six activists remain detained, one begins hunger strike 🟥Attacks on protesters with cars, knives, baseball bats 🟥Alleged use of sonic weapon Read more here: web.civicus.org/SerbiaMay2025

European leaders are amused as AI-generated baby versions of themselves welcome them to the European Political Community summit in Tirana, Albania, May 2025.

⚠️ UZNEMIRUJUĆI SADRŽAJ Jedini profesionalni snimci egzekucije iz rata u Jugoslaviji potiču iz Brčkog. Fotograf je nagrađen svetskim priznanjem. Trideset godina kasnije, u saradnji sa nagrađivanom novinarkom Barbarom Matejčić, osvetljavamo okolnosti pod kojima je nastala ova

I don’t think I’ve seen a story/film as gruesome and important about the methods of Russian/Soviet secret services in my whole life. It focuses on KGB/FSB agents using sexual violence (including against minors) and torture to control political activists in Leningrad/St

I ask my foreign followers to watch our latest doc. It is about KGB/FSB agents who raped, recruited and blackmailed young men for 40 yrs. We dedicated the film to LGBTQ-people in 🇷🇺 - they still live under triple oppression. Political, social and criminal. youtu.be/P-TwKpqJ9qo

Where US diplomats now adopt Far Right narratives that accuse the EU and UK of betraying a Western civilisation that Trump's elites believe is now only embodied in MAGA American supremacism. Anti-European fanaticism as American state dogma statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-for…

#Turkey is accelerating its use of facial recognition to detain and prosecute protesters - often with little or no evidence. I’ve been investigating how #AI is contributing to the erosion of the rule of law and supercharging authoritarianism 🧵 newlinesmag.com/spotlight/turk…

Palestinians at the Port of Gaza protest the seizing of the Madleen and the detaining of its crew, holding up photos of those onboard now in Israeli custody.

Manifestation sur la Place de la République après l'interception du #FreedomFlotilla par l'armée israélienne. Des appels à occuper la place "jusqu'à la levée du blocus à Gaza" ont été lancés sur les réseaux sociaux. #flotilledelaliberte #Gaza #Israel #RimaHassan #GretaThunberg

🇮🇱#Israel: Release aid boat #Madleen and all activists aboard, and respect international law. Authorities must urgently end civilian massacres. They must respond to the humanitarian crisis and allow life-saving aid to millions of #Palestinians deprived of basic needs & dignity.

Breaking: Jewish Voice for a Just Peace (JS) along with BDS Berlin & BDS Bonn have officially been declared “foreign extremists” by the Office of Constitutional Protection

Targeting a protest group with terrorism powers in this way is a shocking escalation of the Government’s crackdown on protest and we urge the Home Secretary to rethink bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Statement of the Faculty Members of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law “An educational institution and its members have been attacked by the armed forces of a government” readers-attend-gcb.craft.me/dmm5PvKWlJ9h2M

The Trump administration’s most influential think tank, the Heritage Foundation, received proposals from illiberal forces in Poland and Hungary (Ordo Iuris & MCC) on reshaping the EU—like dismantling key institutions and renaming the bloc. VSquare vsquare.org/heritage-found…

New #civicspace watchlist looks at deterioration of rights in: 🇸🇻Sweeping Foreign Agents Law 🇮🇩Targeting of activists 🇰🇪Violent crackdown on protests 🇷🇸Student-led protests repressed 🇹🇷Mass arrests & censorship 🇺🇸Military deployed to quell protests web.civicus.org/WatchlistJuly25

🇹🇷#Turkey added to our latest watchlist: 🟠Authorities respond to biggest protests in a decade with violence and mass arrests 🟠Hundreds of opposition party members detained 🟠Journalists assaulted and arrested Country rated as 'Repressed': web.civicus.org/TurkeyWL2025

🇷🇸Serbia remains on our latest watchlist: 🟡Widespread civil disobedience met with brutality and detentions 🟡State providing support and legal protection to violent goons 🟡Surveillance and intimidation of activists Country rated as ‘Obstructed’: web.civicus.org/SerbiaWL-2025

U.S. highlighted on international human rights watchlist for "sustained attacks on civil freedoms" under Trump ti.me/4feNVlC

🇷🇸Srbija ostaje na listi za praćenje: 🟡Na građansku neposlušnost se odgovara brutalnošću i hapšenjima 🟡Država pruža podršku i pravnu zaštitu batinašima 🟡Prisluškivanje i zastrašivanje aktivista Građanski prostor u zemlji ocenjen kao “opstruiran”: web.civicus.org/Srbija

Over the weekend, #UK authorities arrested 500+ peaceful protesters for expressing support for Palestine Action. We call to #LiftTheBan and stop worldwide repression of solidarity with Palestine. Calls to uphold international law must be heard, not silenced. #PalestineAction