18. November 2021.
The treatment of Vietnamese workers brought to Serbia to build a factory for a Chinese company is shameful, and has all the elements of exploitation and people trafficking, an expert says.
Saša Dragojlo
17. November 2021.
Serbian NGOs claim they have been denied access to workers from Vietnam who were brought to the country to build a factory for a Chinese company and are allegedly labouring and living in grim conditions.
16. September 2021.
The European Court of Human Rights has requested Serbia not to extradite a wanted Kurdish activist to Turkey, where he has been sentenced to life in prison, before it has had time to properly evaluate his case.
3. June 2021.
From the ‘Mesopotamia’ in Belgrade to a damp hotel near the Hungarian border, BIRN lifts the lid on a lucrative smuggling operation that keeps migrants and refugees moving across the Balkans, lining the pockets of state security agents along the way.
20. May 2021.
A UN probe into the conflict in Libya led investigators to a small airstrip south of Belgrade, where an ‘agricultural’ plane – modified to carry rockets and traced to US security contractor Erik Prince – was serviced in 2018.
26. February 2021.
A Greek police spokesperson has dismissed reports that Christos Pappas, a convicted senior member of the far-right Golden Dawn party, has fled to monastery in Serbia to escape serving his 13-year jail term at home.
26. January 2021.
Evidence collected by BIRN paints a damning picture of conditions facing Chinese workers in Serbia. Rights experts warn of ‘human trafficking’.
18. January 2021.
Three years after the assassination of Kosovo Serb opposition party leader Oliver Ivanovic, the still-unsolved murder case is plagued by claims of political interference, obstruction of investigators, concealment of evidence and judicial incompetence.
24. December 2020.
Since fleeing a prison sentence in Montenegro in 2016, Milos Marovic, the son of fugitive Montenegrin former politician Svetozar Marovic, has built up agricultural land holdings in Serbia worth more than a million euros, BIRN can reveal.
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