As part of the SI Leader Lab program in Stockholm, the Executive Director of Da se zna!, BojanLazić, together with civil society representatives from more than ten countries of Eastern Europeand the Western Balkans, visited the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) and met with Denis Begić,Member of Parliament from the Social Democratic Party. ...
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...