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03/05/2023

IRCT Press release – Montenegro: IRCT Welcomes Long Delayed Torture Trial, Urges End to Impunity

The IRCT welcomes the start of the long-delayed trial of five police officers, one year after they were indicted by the State Prosecutor of Montenegro for […]
28/04/2023

POLICE TORTURE TRIAL FINALLY BEGINS

The trial of five Podgorica police inspectors for the criminal offense of extorting testimony by severe violence from Marko Boljevic during investigation of the “bombing attacks” […]
21/04/2023

MINISTER ADŽIĆ SUSPENDED THE POLICE INSPECTORS ACCUSED OF TORTURE

In the attached letter, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Filip Adžić, informed the Human Rights Action that he had signed the decisions on 5 April on […]
18/04/2023

24 YEARS SINCE THE CRIME COMMITTED IN KALUDJERSKI LAZ

Today marks 24 years since members of the Army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia killed 22 and wounded 7 civilians of Albanian nationality who – […]
17/04/2023

THERE IS A NEED TO INVESTIGATE THE MOTIVE OF THE ATTACK ON ATHLETES FROM SARAJEVO AND INTRODUCE SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS

The Human Rights Action (HRA) strongly condemns the attack on two under-aged athletes from Sarajevo which occurred yesterday in Bar, as well as the recent attacks […]
14/04/2023

Response of HRA Executive Director to Minister of Interior’s Public Accusations

Minister of Internal Affairs Filip Adžić brazenly accused myself and the Human Rights Action organisation  “of destroying public institutions in order to get specific grants”, because of our repeated […]
12/04/2023

U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE HAS BEEN NOTIFIED OF INVESTIGATIONS OF POLICE TORTURE AND UNLAWFUL ACTIONS OF MINISTER ADŽIĆ

Today, the Human Rights Action informed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, about the problems in the processing of reports of police […]
07/04/2023

ECtHR REJECTS THE APPLICATION OF DEPORTATION VICTIMS: THEY LACK VICTIM STATUS, THE STATE SUFFICIENTLY RECOGNISED VIOLATION OF THEIR RIGHTS EVEN WITHOUT PUNISHING THOSE RESPONSIBLE

The European Court of Human Rights issued a decision rejecting the application of 9 women – mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of 6 refugee victims who […]
04/04/2023

A DISSOLVED ASSEMBLY CAN PERFORM ONLY CURRENT AND URGENT TASKS

As the President of the State has issued the decree on its dissolution, the Parliament of Montenegro no longer has full jurisdiction and can only perform […]
30/03/2023

OMBUDSMAN TO REACT: MINISTER VIOLATES THE LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARD BY REFUSING TO SUSPEND POLICE INSPECTORS ACCUSED OF TORTURE

Yesterday, the Human Rights Action (HRA) submitted a letter to the Ombudsman, Siniša Bjeković, in which it asked him to warn the Minister of the Interior, […]
28/03/2023

THE DECISION OF PROSECUTOR MAJA KNEZEVIĆ TO DISMISS GRUJIČIĆ’S CRIMINAL REPORT AGAINST POLICE INSPECTORS AND THEIR CHIEFS WAS ABOLISHED FOR THE THIRD TIME

High state prosecutor Željko Tomković has assessed that the third decision of state prosecutor Maja Knežević from the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Podgorica to dismiss […]
27/03/2023

LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: MINISTER ADŽIĆ SHOULD SUSPEND THOSE ACCUSED OF TORTURE

Today, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Action (HRA) Tea Gorjanc Prelević demanded from the Prime Minister in the technical Government, Dritan Abazović, to ensure […]