UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 11, 2025
Albanian Language Media:
Kurti: We witnessed strong and direct interference by Serbia in elections (media)
Rutte: "Kosovo is a very important country" (RTK)
Zemaj: Rutte’s visit to Kosovo is historic (media)
Government to review Kosovo - US framework agreement on defense (Reporteri)
Kurti commemorates 1981 demonstrations (Albanian Post)
Serbian Language Media:
Vucic calls on all stakeholders on political scene not to use violence (Tanjug)
- Kosovo Police Inspectorate confirmed it received complaint related to juvenile treatment; says it will undertake actions envisaged by law (Alternativna.com)
Petkovic: As March 15 approaches, Kurti is increasing his support for blockades in Belgrade (Kosovo Online)
- Andjelkovic: I expect Rutte to confirm NATO stands behind Brussels agreement and CSM (Tanjug)
Media: Trump's son landed in Belgrade, a meeting with Vucic expected (N1, media)
Students spent night in front of RTS, all three entrances were blocked (KiM radio, N1)
- Students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts responded with a video to Vucic's accusations of attacking a police officer (NMagazin, N1)
- MIA on incident in front of RTS – Lie that Gendarmerie attacked anyone (N1, media)
"You are not authorized to judge how much of a Serb I am": Arsenijevic replied to Vucic's name-calling (Danas)
International Media:
Kosovo’s PM accuses Serbia of interfering in parliamentary elections (PI)
NATO’s Rutte backs Bosnia after separatist moves by Serbian region (Al Jazeera)
Serbian students blockade public broadcaster, frustrated over protest reporting (BIRN)
Serbia: Stop targeting and intimidating journalists (article19.com)
European civil society stands in solidarity with the people of Serbia (fidh.org)
Unity in diversity: Bosniak students join Serbian fight for ‘Better society’ (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian:
‘Today we march, every day we fight’ (Kosovo 2.0)
Albanian Language Media
Kurti: We witnessed strong and direct interference by Serbia in elections (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said in a post on X on Monday evening that “in the parliamentary elections held a month ago, we witnessed strong and direct interference by Serbia—specifically its government—aimed at intimidating and threatening the Serbian community in Kosova. This interference included financial threats of withholding Serbian benefits, blackmail, bribery, contracted cyberattacks, and other forms of pressure, primarily targeting Serbian parties that challenge the dominance of the Serbian List and seek to bring political plurality to the system, as well as voters supporting parties other than the Serbian List”.
Kurti went on to say that “on election day, buses transported voters from Serbia, and collective voting was organized. Voters were monitored near polling stations, and it was made clear that anyone who reported these actions to the police would have their families threatened. Methods of voter coercion have been documented and acknowledged by the European Union Election Observation Mission, which has also gathered evidence of a disinformation campaign orchestrated by Russian-backed media in Serbia. Meanwhile, the current Kosova Serb minister, Nenad Rasic, was directly threatened by Milan Radoicic and his associates. As Minister Rasic stated, the government in Belgrade is an authoritarian one—as evidenced by months-long protests—that seeks to use the Serbs in Kosova for its own interests. As a result, its actions actively undermine the integration of Kosova Serbs into our country. He also outlined how the Serbian government used physical threats to force individuals to vote, including those who were not registered to vote three days before the elections. Their data was obtained from social welfare schemes, and they were physically threatened by Petar Petkovic and the Serbian police. Meanwhile fictitious government job openings targeting the Serbian population in Kosova aimed at bribing citizens to comply with voting along Belgrade’s lines. This instance has exposed several critical issues, including the use of Serbian state benefits to suppress one of the fundamental civil rights of the Serbian population: the right to a free vote. It has also highlighted the continued illegal activities of Milan Radoicic, carried out under orders from the Serbian government. However, it has also demonstrated the effectiveness of our law enforcement, ensuring that, unlike in the past, voter suppression did not escalate into beatings and killings”.
Rutte: "Kosovo is a very important country" (RTK)
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, before arriving in Pristina, said that "Kosovo is a very important country", where NATO's presence is strong through KFOR troops. "It is important that we all engage so that this country is in the best possible situation. There were elections there and we will see how the new government will be formed. All this is part of a normal democratic process, which is good. But the situation is changing in the entire region. I am in intensive communications, not only with the leaders of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but last week I also spoke with Vucic, who is expected to be in Brussels next week. So, communications are intense so that tensions in the region decrease," Rutte told Al Jazeera Balkans.
The NATO chief, speaking about the increase in tensions in the region, emphasized that what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995, and in Kosovo until 1999, must never be repeated.
See the interview here: https://tinyurl.com/yc26frsm
Zemaj: Rutte’s visit to Kosovo is historic (media)
Most news websites report that Kosovo’s Ambassador for relations with NATO, Astrit Zemaj, shared on Facebook today photos of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte boarding a plane on his way to Kosovo. “Towards Kosovo under the supervision of the Italian Air Force, NATO North Atlantic Council (NAC 32 Allies) and Partners, together with the highest civilian and military governance structures. The largest and most important NATO visit to our country in recent years. The Republic of Kosovo is grateful to all Allies and Partners for your continued support and contribution to our country and strengthening of international subjectivity, as well as for peace, security and stability in the region,” Zemaj wrote in the post.
Government to review Kosovo - US framework agreement on defense (Reporteri)
The government of Kosovo is expected to review the Initiative for the conclusion of a Framework Agreement for cooperation in the field of defense between Kosovo and the United States of America, represented by the Department of Defense.
In January of this year, Kosovo’s Minister of Defense, Ejup Maqedonci, after the reception he was given at the Department of Defense of the United States, had announced that discussions had been held on the implementation of the framework agreement in the field of defense. The announcement emphasized that this agreement "will open new opportunities in the field of security and defense".
Kurti commemorates 1981 demonstrations (Albanian Post)
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti commemorated today the 44th anniversary of the March 1981 demonstrations, describing them as “a series of shocking blows to Serbia and all of Yugoslavia.”
“Today marks 44 years since the March 11, 1981 demonstration, so let us remember with deep gratitude and honor and respect the student martyrs, the organizers, the wounded and prisoners, as well as all participants of that movement,” he wrote.
According to Kurti, the students of the University of Pristina, revolted by oppression and discrimination, rose up on March 11, 1981, a week after the first protest in the student cafeteria on March 4.
He emphasized that “the March 11 demonstration was violently suppressed by the Yugoslav police, but the spirit of indignation and rebellion of the students became the inspiration for a nationwide resistance.”
Kurti also mentioned the consequences of those protests, saying that “in the following months and years, the Yugoslav authorities carried out thousands of arbitrary arrests, trials and political imprisonments, making Kosovo the country with the highest number of political prisoners per capita in all of Europe.”
He recalled that the slogan “Kosovo Republic” appeared for the first time in these demonstrations, which continued to be used throughout the decade. According to him, the generation of those demonstrators and activists “were the backbone of the founding groups of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which, with the just war in the following decade, liberated Kosovo in June 1999.”
In conclusion, he said that “the popular slogan ‘Kosovo Republic’ became the Constitutional Declaration on July 2, 1990 and the Constitution of Kacanik on September 7, 1990, being crowned on February 17, 2008 with the declaration of independence.”
Serbian Language Media
Vucic calls on all stakeholders on political scene not to use violence (Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has once again called on all stakeholders on the political scene of Serbia not to use violence in their pursuits, Tanjug news agency reported.
“I accept that I am guilty because they discharged stunt grenades and smoke bombs in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, but I am kindly asking them not to do that anymore, and not think of further attacks on the state institutions, as they attacked last night RTS and RTS”, Vucic said in a video post on his official Instagram account.
He also said that in a meeting with Donald Trump Junior he will discuss further economic advancement of Serbia, and creating even better relations with the US.
Kosovo Police Inspectorate confirmed it received complaint related to juvenile treatment, says it will undertake actions envisaged by law (Alternativna.com)
Kosovo Police Inspectorate (PIK) confirmed to Alternativna.com portal it is informed of the case of D.H. a Bosniak juvenile from Mitrovica North, arrested by Kosovo police for alleged involvement in an inter-ethnic incident in Mitrovica North. After release from the police station in this town, D.H. claimed he was seriously mistreated and assaulted by Kosovo police members.
“Kosovo Police Inspectorate will undertake all actions envisaged by the legal authorizations, deriving from the law on PIK”, reads response sent to the portal without providing further details.
After Kosovo police apprehended by mistake three Serbian juveniles last week in Mitrovica North, an underage D.H. who was arrested said that although he is underage, he spent more than an hour in the police station without the presence of his parents or a lawyer. He publicly spoke how police officers hit him with fists on body and the head, slapped him, adding that all this happened in a room not covered by surveillance cameras. He also claimed police officers attempted to force him write down the names of those who were with him, and that they wanted to access his phone content without court order.
After that parents of the arrested Serbian boys and of D.H. organized a protest walk in Mitrovica North.
Petkovic: As March 15 approaches, Kurti is increasing his support for the blockades in Belgrade (Kosovo Online)
The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, indicated today that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti is increasing his support to the blockades in Belgrade, as March 15 is approaching, when the protest in Belgrade is scheduled.
"As March 15 approaches, Albin Kurti also increases his support for the blockaders in Belgrade. These violent demonstrations are the reason for Kurti's new attack on Serbia, who says: 'the government in Belgrade is authoritarian, as evidenced by months of protests - it tries to use the Serbs in Kosovo for its own interests'. The same narrative as the Serbian violent opposition! Coincidentally? I wouldn't say!", Petkovic wrote on X.
A protest of blockaded students and citizens in Belgrade has been announced for March 15.
Andjelkovic: I expect Rutte to confirm NATO stands behind Brussels agreement and CSM (Tanjug)
Post of Serbia Director and former chair of Executive Council for Kosovo Zoran Andjelkovic said today it would be logical that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during the visit in Pristina today once again confirms and clearly says that NATO stands behind Brussels Agreement and request to establish Community of Serbian Municipalities (CSM) in order to ensure peace and stability in Kosovo, as well as to put an end to mistreatment of Serbs carried out by Pristina authorities.
Andjelkovic told Tanjug news agency he also expects that Rutte during the visit will clearly confirm KFOR has an obligation to protect and ensure peace in Kosovo, primarily in the north, in line with UNSC Resolution 1244.
He also said Rutte should make it clear to Pristina that Kosovo Security Forces cannot enter the north of Kosovo.
Media: Trump's son landed in Belgrade, a meeting with Vucic expected (N1, media)
The son of US President, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Belgrade, and according to the media, he should meet with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.
Trump Jr. was already in Belgrade in September 2024 at the height of the campaign for the election of the US president. At that time, he organized a dinner with representatives of Serbian business in a Belgrade hotel.
As the portal Nova.rs wrote at the time, one of the topics of the conversation was Trump's investments in the world, primarily in the field of real estate, hotels, and digital media, as well as the conditions for doing business in Serbia and the USA.
The Trump-Kushner family plans to build a hotel in Serbia under the Trump brand, on the site of the General Staff building in Knez Milos Street.
Donald Trump Jr. is an entrepreneur and executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
Students spent night in front of RTS, all three entrances were blocked (KiM radio, N1)
The students, who blocked the entrances to the RTS building last night around 11:00 p.m., spent the night in front of the public broadcaster, reported KiM radio, citing N1.
In front of the main entrance, the orderlies have formed a human wall and do not allow employees to enter the building, but anyone who wants to can leave it.
"Students are dispatched at three points - the first is in front of the main entrance at Takovska 10, the second at Aberdareva Street, where metal fences have been installed, and the third at the bottom of Aberdareva, just after the intersection with Ilije Garasanina Street, where metal fences have also been installed, so that employees cannot approach the building by car", said the N1 reporter.
A certain number of citizens joined the students. Some came before work to support them. According to the reporter N1, the police in uniform are not present, which does not mean that there are no law enforcement officers in plainclothes.
Takovska Street was no longer blocked, that is, traffic is functioning normally in both directions.
The first morning work shift at RTS starts around 7:00 a.m., and the N1 reporter, who has been in front of the public broadcaster since half past seven, did not notice anyone entering the building.
Whistles and shouts of "pump it" can be heard in front of RTS.
At one-point last night, there was an altercation when members of the Gendarmerie moved towards the RTS. One plainclothes police officer was injured. Although the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic said he was injured by students, it later turned out that he was hit by a gendarme. This is confirmed by the videos that were shared on social networks and media.
Students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts responded with a video to Vucic's accusations of attacking a police officer (NMagazin, N1)
The students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in the blockade responded to the accusations of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, that the policeman in front of RTS was injured by "Bolshevik plenums", by posting a video on their Instagram account, which, according to NMagazin, allegedly clearly shows that mentioned policeman was hit by a member of the Gendarmerie.
"RTS, when are you publishing this?," FDU students asked and said: "Everyone in blockades."
The portal recalls that several videos were published on social networks, which allegedly “clearly show” that plainclothes policeman Lazar Bacic, who was injured in the eye during the protest in front of RTS, was hit by a member of the gendarmerie.
Footage posted on social network X shows a gendarme in riot gear punching a plainclothes man standing on a fence in Aberdareva Street in the face, before he loses his balance and falls to the ground. Based on the clothes that the man is wearing, as well as other recordings and photos, it can be concluded that it is the injured policeman, Lazar Bacic, the portal reported.
NMagazin reported that even though it is quite clear from the attachment how the policeman Bacic was injured, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic hastened tonight to announce that "Bolshevik plenums in front of the RTS building" were behind the attack.
Vucic published a picture with Bacic, claiming that this member of the MIA was "hit with brass knuckles".
Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar said in the Serbian Parliament that the injured policeman is undergoing surgery and that doctors are trying to save his sight.
Students have been blocking the RTS building since last night, after they were called a "mob" on the public service. The blockade, as announced, should continue.
MIA on incident in front of RTS – Lie that Gendarmerie attacked anyone (N1, media)
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said in a statement today relating to the incident which took place in front of the public broadcaster RTS last night that they “work intensively as per order of the Higher Public Prosecution Office to establish all the facts related to the last night’s events in front of the Radio Television of Serbia”, N1 reported.
“It is irrefutable fact, supported by numerous video recordings, published also by participants themselves, that Gendarmerie while carrying out its task to enter RTS building in order to prevent forceful entry to it, was obstructed and assaulted by participants in the blockade”, the statement reads.
As the statement added there were attempts to block their passage, police officers were pushed, pelted with different objects and hit.
“Prosecution will receive all official recordings and recordings from social media, as well as the statement of injured gendarme, who told police he was hit with a brass knuckle and also form other gendarmes who were attacked and who sustained several blows on different parts while entering RTS building. It is an absolute lie and manipulation that Gendarmerie attacked anyone. They were attacked without reason and their members sustained several blows while entering the RTS building”, the statement also said.
"You are not authorized to judge how much of a Serb I am": Arsenijevic replied to Vucic's name-calling (Danas)
The President of the Serbian Democracy, Aleksandar Arsenijevic, stated that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, is not competent to qualify him and his comrades as to what kind of Serbs they are, reported Danas.
Last night, after the Main Board of SNS, President Vucic stated that many people attacked SNS for the Serbian List.
"So, they attacked you for the Serbian List. So, they said, that a great Serb, for whom many honorable Serbs, especially in the north, voted. Arsenijevic or whatever. So, you saw Rasic yesterday," he said.
Vucic added that in the end, Kosovo PM Albin Kurti regretted that Nenad Rasic, the leader of "For Freedom, Justice and Survival", and Arsenijevic did not get another mandate each in order to "attack the Serbian List".
"In the end, only one list protected the interests of the people, maybe another list, but not these two''. ''And they gave everything to destroy it and collapse it," he stated and added that they received money from Germany and other countries for this purpose.
Arsenijevic announced that he agrees with President Vucic that he is a great Serb but said that he is much smaller than every ordinary person who is trying here to wait for tomorrow.
"I understand that maybe you are tired because it is not easy for you these days. No matter how much you slander me, YOU ARE NOT COMPETENT to qualify me and my comrades for what kind of Serbs we are. And as for the "German development agency" you mention, we were the first to point out the 7.5-million-euro project that the German agency approved to Rasic and directly publicly accused them of interfering in the election process," he stated.
He added that the same project passed under the radar of the Serbian List.
"You see that with them to what extent they do their job. It seems that if we weren't there, you wouldn't even know that it happened, as well as many other things that happen here that only we document," said Arsenijevic.
International
Kosovo’s PM accuses Serbia of interfering in parliamentary elections (PI)
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti accused Serbia of interfering in the February 9 parliamentary elections in Kosovo, alleging that Serbia influenced the election of MPs from the Serb and other non-majority ethnic communities.
During a press conference on Sunday, Kosovo’s PM Albin Kurti stated that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic intervened in the parliamentary elections in Kosovo through the Serbian government, intelligence services, and organised crime groups.
“Serbia’s interference in our parliamentary elections is an assault on the democracy and sovereignty of Kosovo. It has influenced the selection of Serb MPs and non-Serb minorities, which are fully under the control of Serbia’s President, Aleksandar Vucic, the government, Serbian intelligence, and organised crime there,” Kurti declared.
He further added that these interventions have evolved “due to the improvement in security in the four northern municipalities, the rule of law, the fight against terrorist groups, and the closure of illegal structures.”
“The previous brutal and physical influence, including beatings and murders, is no longer possible. The threats have been replaced with hybrid forms of interference, including bribery, financial conditioning, blackmail, threats, and cyber-attacks,” Kurti continued.
Read more at: https://shorturl.at/vWcxb
NATO’s Rutte backs Bosnia after separatist moves by Serbian region (Al Jazeera)
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has pledged the military alliance’s “unwavering” support for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s federal government after a series of separatist moves from Bosnian Serb leaders.
Rutte spoke in Sarajevo on Monday after meeting the three members of Bosnia’s multiethnic presidency shortly after Bosnian Serb lawmakers passed legislation barring federal judicial authorities and police from operating in the autonomous territory of Republika Srpska.
The NATO chief said any actions that undermine the Dayton Agreement, which ended the country’s 1992-1995 war, were “unacceptable”. He warned that “inflammatory rhetoric and actions” posed a direct threat to Bosnia’s “stability and security”.
Since the end of the Bosnian War, the country has consisted of two autonomous regions – Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation, which are linked by a weak central government.
Bosnian officials said the Republika Srpska laws violate the peace agreement, which binds the two regions under joint institutions, including the army, top courts and tax authorities.
Read more at: https://shorturl.at/V6G44
Serbian students blockade public broadcaster, frustrated over protest reporting (BIRN)
Students in Serbia on Tuesday picketed the main building of Radio-Television Serbia, RTS in Belgrade and the country’s second public broadcaster, Radio Television of Vojvodina, RTV in Novi Sad, demanding that they report more objectively on their months-long anti-corruption protests.
The picket in Belgrade started on Monday night at 11 pm and protesters said the blockades would continue for 22 hours, dubbing them “the liberation of our RTS”.
The move to target the broadcasters was not announced in advance but many students posted calls on social media for members of the public to join them in front of the RTS building.
“The long-prepared operation ‘Operation’ has just begun. Takovska 10. RTS. Everyone, right now,” students from the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts wrote on Monday night on their Instagram account.
Protesters arrived on Monday night and put up metal fences at the RTS building entrance.
Serbia’s gendarmerie riot police also arrived on Monday night. Videos on social media showed them going through a group of students and hitting some of them with batons. Media reported that numerous police were present inside both the RTS and RTV buildings.
Read more at: https://shorturl.at/jKIhm
Serbia: Stop targeting and intimidating journalists (article19.com)
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners, together with the SafeJournalists Network (SJN), strongly condemn the escalating and systematic attacks on journalists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Serbia, where violence, obstruction, and intimidation are being tolerated and perpetrated at the highest levels of government.
In the aftermath of the deadly collapse of the roof of the Novi Sad railway station on 1 November 2024, journalists have come under unacceptable pressure while covering the tragic story and the subsequent protests. The majority of incidents logged on the Mapping Media Freedom platform are instances of verbal abuse and physical assault against journalists and media workers. Of the 22 incidents documented between November 2024 and February 2025, five attacks were initiated by state officials, including Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and his ruling SNS party.
Some of the most serious attacks include a death threat sent to Ana Lalić Hegediš, the Executive Director of the Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina (NDNV), on her Facebook page in November 2024. On 17 January 2025, NDNV, whose premises had recently been broken into, reported that police had forcibly removed five journalists from the Novi Sad City Hall to prevent them from documenting an opposition-led protest from inside the building.
Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/mt2hfdkz
European civil society stands in solidarity with the people of Serbia (fidh.org)
We, representatives of European civil society from across the continent, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express our deep concern over the rapid escalation of restrictions, attacks, and repression against civil society in Serbia and call on the Serbian authorities to stop them.
10 March 2025. The latest illegal police raid on five leading non-governmental organisations represents a stark and deeply troubling intensification of the systemic effort to silence critical voices and suppress fundamental freedoms. This targeted assault underscores the growing crackdown on organisations that directly empower citizens to participate in public life and hold authorities accountable.
We stand in unwavering solidarity with the people of Serbia who are courageously resisting state oppression and systemic misgovernance. The mass protests were sparked by the tragic collapse of the newly renovated train station in Novi Sad on 1 November 2024, which claimed 15 lives and left two others seriously injured. This disastrous incident laid bare the authorities’ systemic corruption and negligence, which is why the protests demand systemic change in addition to the government taking responsibility for the tragedy. The Serbian government has responded to these legitimate expressions of grief and outrage with increasing repression against civil society.
Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/2vj4vp67
Unity in diversity: Bosniak students join Serbian fight for ‘Better society’ (Balkan Insight)
In the southwestern Serbian town of Novi Pazar, Bosniak and Serb students alike say the demands of nationwide student protests transcend the ethnic and religious divisions of the past.
Hands are painted in red on the doors of the public university in Novi Pazar, and a notice bars entry to all but the students who have occupied the building.
Like their colleagues across the country, students in this town in southwestern Serbia have joined protests demanding justice for the 15 people killed when an outdoor canopy at a newly renovated railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed on November 1 last year.
But there’s one subtle difference in the protest in Novi Pazar, a town of some 100,000 people and seat of the ethnically mixed Sandzak region that straddles the borders of Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina: here, the students are mainly Bosniaks.
They were among the last to join the student-led protests rocking Serbia for the past several months, but join they did. The students in Novi Pazar say the demands they all share transcend the issues of identity, ethnicity and religion that became the faultlines of Yugoslavia’s bloody collapse in the 1990s.
“We are not children of war, we are not children of sanctions or of division,” said Selma Kolasinac, a third-year architecture student.
Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/ykaxkmfp
Humanitarian/Development
‘Today we march, every day we fight’ (Kosovo 2.0)
In photos: the March 8 call for gender justice.
As the names of women murdered by their intimate partners, husbands or other family members echoed through the streets, protesters marched through Prishtina on Saturday, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day.
They called for “not one more” name to be added to the growing list of femicide victims in Kosovo. The march was held under the slogan “We march for one another” — Marshojmë për njana-tjetrën — an expression of solidarity from women to women, in a context where deeply-rooted patriarchy makes leaning on one another the safest place for women.
The Marshojmë s’festojmë collective organized the march through a participatory process, in which the public was invited to join preparations over a month before the march took place. Activists gathered in different parts of the city, including Termokiss community center and University of Prishtina Student Center, to fundraise and work on the messages and materials of the march.
At one of Prishtina’s main police stations, protesters hurled red paint and flares: striking symbols of the blood of murdered women and a call for a stronger mobilization by the police to protect women. Kosovo Police has failed to prevent femicide on a number of occasions, like those of Sebahate Morina in 2021 and Hamide Magashi in 2022, by failing to implement court decisions and respond effectively to victims’ calls for protection.
Read more at: https://shorturl.at/xgMD8