Last night we celebrated the ninth anniversary of our organization and presented awards toindividuals and a collective who stood out in the fight for LGBT+ human rights over the past 12months. The award for Queer Person of the Year went to Andrej Obradović, a gay man who was thevictim of brutal police torture solely because of...
Today, we held a press conference marking one year since the brutal police violence againstAndrej Obradović and his roommate. At the conference, Andrej Obradović, victim of police torture, and Bojan Lazić, ExecutiveDirector of Da se zna!, addressed the media and the public. Andrej announced that, due to theimpossibility of achieving justice in Serbia, he is compelled...
The motive for the attack was his sexual orientation. We provided him with support and offered legal, psychological, and other assistance. Da se zna! strongly condemns this homophobic act of violence and urges the Prosecutor’sOffice to urgently prosecute the attacker and, in classifying the criminal offense, apply Article54a of the Criminal Code so that the act...
Recently, the first case of homophobic violence this year was reported to our organization. Agay young man was attacked in his apartment by an acquaintance of a friend. During the attack, the perpetrator shouted: “All of you should be killed!” and “I’ll break your ribsone by one!”, which gives reasonable grounds to believe that the attack...
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, marked on December 10, our Bojan Lazićspoke at the Human Rights House on a panel dedicated to the position of marginalized groupsin Serbia, with a focus on the situation of queer people. On that occasion, he emphasized theregression when it comes to improving the position of LGBT+...
We inform the public that today we filed a criminal complaint against Saša Borojević with theProsecutor’s Office for High-Tech Crime for the criminal offense of Unauthorized Publicationand Display of Another’s Document, Portrait, or Recording under Article 145 of the CriminalCode. Earlier today, Borojević published on his Instagram profile a photograph of a poster created bystudents of...
The organization Da se zna! strongly condemns the hate speech and threats directed at theteachers and female students of Primary School “Petar Kočić” in Inđija, following a drawingdepicting two girls holding hands with the messages “Tolerance is not a foreign word” and “It’sok to be gay.”On the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance, November...
LGBT+ organizations, human rights activists, and citizens marked the Transgender Day of Remembrance at Republic Square in Belgrade. “This year, we lost 350 transgender people worldwide, and these are only the cases where we know that transphobia was the motive for the murder. These are mostly trans women and trans-feminine people, most of them young and...