Latest posts by Jasmina Babic
3 March 2012
Serbia
The High Court in Belgrade has recently brought its first conviction for online hate speech, sentencing Simo Vladičić to three months in prison and two years of probation for threatening members of the LGBT community via the Facebook group 500.000 Srba protiv gej parade/500,000 Serbs against gay parade in September 2011, when the gay pride parade in Belgrade was canceled due to security reasons. In a similar case, the European Court of Human Rights has recently ruled that hate speech against members of the LGBT community cannot be justified by the right to freedom of speech.
29 January 2012
Bosnia Herzegovina
Using the Facebook page [bs] “Moj grad, moja sigurnost, moja odgovornost” (”My city, my security, my responsibility”), Sarajevo residents are uploading pictures of illegally parked cars and reckless drivers, trying to convince the authorities to take action and protect pedestrians. According to the administrators of the page, there has been enormous response from the people who decided to take the problem of transport culture into their own hands.
4 July 2011
Greece: “We Gave Birth to Democracy, and We Killed It!”
Jasmina Babic reviews tweets about last week's protests in Athens, Greece, and the violent response of the local police.































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