Tom in Lazybrook
pre 12 godina
TP,
Gays in Serbia are de facto (by practice, regardless of Serbian Law says) banned from the freedom of association, expression, petition, protest, expression, speech, and protest.
They are banned from marching for their rights in their national capital.
The Serbian state has refused to take any concrete steps to protect them from terroristic threats and to appropriate prosecute violence against them by Serbian thugs.
When can Serbian Gays march through their national capital under banners of their choosing to protest their mistreatment by the state?
When will anyone go to jail for the terrorist threats made against the 2011 LGBT Parada Ponosa? Yes I know, the authorities keep arresting the same guy and sentencing him to a week or so in jail, but he'll be free in October and doing the same thing again this year. And the police won't do anything to protect the marchers. The marchers have a right to march in their national capital and to be VISIBLE. It isn't a protest if its' thrown into some closed off park. That isn't the point of a protest. A woman was seriously injured two weeks after the banning of protest rights for LGBT Serbians simply for wearing a rainbow colored shirt. No one went to jail for that. The Serbian foreign ministry helped a violent thug escape prosecution for a brutal unprovoked beating that a Serbian basketball player committed in the USA against a US citizen. That Serb criminal was not punished appropriately.
Serbia has laws. They just aren't enforced. And the proximate result of that non-enforcement is that LGBT Serbians have no right of protest, speech, association, expression, and petition.
Parada Ponosa 2012 is planned for October, on the streets of Central Serbia (on a weekend afternoon). Will it be cancelled again this year as a result of terroristic threats combined with police refusal to enforce the laws of Serbia?
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