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07/03/2023

TV APPEARANCES INSTEAD OF SUSPENSION DUE TO TORTURE

In a letter to the Minister of the Interior Filip Adzić, and the Director of Police Administration Zoran Brdjanin, the Executive Director of the NGO Human […]
06/03/2023

Our children should not have to live in fear of violence

The Parents Association and the Human Rights Action are calling on the authorities to conduct an urgent and thorough investigation and appropriately sanction all who participated […]
06/03/2023

HRA’S APPEAL: AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE NEED TO ESTABLISH JUDICIAL POLICE IN MONTENEGRO

The Human Rights Action (HRA) supports today’s protest in front of the Basic Court in Podgorica, which was organised by employees of judicial institutions because of […]
28/02/2023

FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, IT IS NECESSARY TO ELECT THE FOURTH CANDIDATE

The Parliament of Montenegro had an obligation to elect the fourth candidate for judge of the Constitutional Court, as this would ensure that this Court had […]
27/02/2023

Expert opinion: The proposed “anti-mafia” law is not in line with the European human rights standards

The Human Rights Action (HRA) once again appealed to the Parliament of Montenegro and the Montenegrin Government to abandon the adoption of the Draft Law on […]
27/02/2023

THREE DECADES OF WAITING FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF THE CRIME COMMITTED IN ŠTRPCI

Today marks three decades since the war crime in which twenty passengers were taken off a train at the station in Štrpci and murdered. The Human […]
21/02/2023

Implementation of the War Crimes Investigation Strategy of the State Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro 2021 – 2022

Implementation of the War Crimes Investigation Strategy of the State Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro 2021 – 2022
21/02/2023
The Human Rights Action (HRA) is protesting the decision of the basic state prosecutor in Podgorica, Maja Knežević, to dismiss for the third time the criminal […]
09/02/2023

THE PROSECUTORIAL COUNCIL CIRCUMVENTED THE BAN ON THE ELECTION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS TO LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

The Human Rights Action believes that the Prosecutorial Council should not have considered higher state prosecutor Tatjana Begović (from the list of prosecutors with at least […]
30/01/2023

Proactive Prosecution of War Crimes is an Obligation of the State and a Moral Debt to the Victims

Although this was envisaged in the 2015 War Crimes Investigation Strategy, Montenegro is still not prosecuting war crimes on its own initiative (proactively), said the Executive […]
30/12/2022

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND 2023!

22/12/2022

PROTEST CAUSED BY THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE LAW ON THE STATE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

The Human Rights Action (HRA) is expressing its protest against the decision of the Prosecutorial Council to propose to the Parliament of Montenegro – at the […]