The LGBT Forum Progress, Centre for Civic Education, Human Rights Action, Center for antidiscrimination “Equista” and “Juventas” welcome the first-instance verdict of the High Court in Belgrade, which adopted the claim of the NGO Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) against the daily newspaper “Press” for publishing texts – comments from readers on the Internet site “Press Online” . The verdict is determining that the published texts and comments represent hate speech against LGBT population, and that “Press” has, by permitting and facilitating the above comments on the site, acted discriminatory towards this population…
Verdict of the high court in Belgrade – important message for the region – (pdf)