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press release of belgrade pride organisers:

Belgrade, 19.9.2009


This morning organisers Beograd Pride held their final press conference
before tomorrows pride parade. Except pride will not be held, due to
high security risks and a lack of cooperation on the part of state and
police to secure the event. Serbian police have cancelled permission for
the pride to be held in its planned location in the centre of the city.

This is after months of planning by the organising team, and repeated
assurances from government at all levels, the minister for minorities,
and the Serbian premier and president, that the pride will be secured
and protected.

A full security study was commissioned more than three months ago by
pride organisers and executed by the university defence department
constructing a detailed strategy for all logistical possibilities to
carry out pride safely with full instructions for how police would
secure pride participants entrance to the parade, their safety during
the event and their ability to leave the event unmolested.

This security study also made detailed recommendations for preventative
measures that could be taken by police in the months leading up to pride
to minimise the risk of violence. Police did not undertake these
measures and despite months of meetings with pride organisers and daily
meetings in the past two weeks have failed to act on security measures,
instead choosing the tactic of pressurising organisers to cancel the event.

In the last 48 hours the police in meetings with pride organisers
refused all cooperation for the securing of the pride, applying further
pressure to organisers to cancel. Police refused to take responsibility
for maintaining public order during the event. Instead telling the pride
organisers that they would be held responsible for any public damage
caused by the hooligans and fascist groups who have been organising a
violent response to pride.

In the past week the logistical plans of fascist groups for their
violence towards pride participants have been published in serbian
media, these plans include calls for the lynching and beating LGBT
people attending the pride. Serbia has laws against hate speech but at
no point has there been any move on the part of authorities to
prosecute, instead the official line has been that this is *a debate, an
exchange of opinions*

Public statements in support of pride have been made at the level of
European parliament as this is an important step forward for human
rights in Serbia and would signal an end to the rule of right wing
violence over the rights of minority groups and an entry of serbian
society into a new era of more open equality.

Police have offering an alternative venue on the edge of town, tho how
this event might be better secured than the location formerly agreed
upon is not known. Today pride organisers have officially requested that
police take action against fascist and right wing organisations who have
issued hate speech against LGBT groups and pride in the press.

Pride organisers continue to meet today to discuss possible courses of
action to demonstrate against this failure by serbian state and police
to defend our most basic human rights, the right to safely walk the
streets.

We want to ask you for your support and action.

Please spread the Information,
write protest notes to the following Politicians or
organise protests at Serbian embassies.



WRITE TO:
Boris Tadi?
Predsednik Republike Srbije
Andri?ev Venac 1
11000 Beograd

Tel:  +381 11 3632 007, 3632 136
Fax: +381 11 658 584, 361 78 65
Email:  kontakt.predsednik@predsednik.rs

Prime Minister - President of the Serbian Government
Mirko Cvetkovic
Predsednik Vlade Republike Srbije
Nemanjina 11
11000 Beograd
Serbia

Tel: +381 11 3617-719
Fax: +381 11 3617-609
Email:  predsednikvladesrbije@srbija.sr.gov.rs

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior
Ivica Da?i?
Nemanjina 11
11000 Beograd
Serbia

Tel/Fax: +381 11 3617-586
Email:  kabinet.zpv@sr.gov.rs
E-mail:  muprs@mup.sr.gov.yu
www.mup.sr.gov.yu

Mayor of Belgrade
Dragan Djilas
Dragoslava Jovanovi?a 2, 3229-678
Email:

Minister of Human and Minority Rights
Svetozar Ciplic
Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 2
11000 Beograd
Email:  kabinet@ljudskaprava.gov.rs

first fatal kiss are back in vienna, tired but happy, we want to say a big THANK YOU for supporting, organising, audio engineering, playing with us, partying with us, providing sleeping place, nice encounters and glorious moments (in order of appearance):

bunkr parukarka
hukot
river for sale
tomek
ludek
grrzzz
zarda
petra
the professional violinplaying girl

schwarzer kanal
kazze
johanna
sev
frauke
adina
freigiebige gästinnen für die solikohle für lambda istanbul
lindsey cockwell
antje & lieschen - a spoon called phranc
tina für die kontakte nach kiel
club la moustache
dana
lokal
the biggest schnitzel in the universe
kazka
alex
elisa (+ dem flyerjagenden hund)

der radfahrenden seniorInnenrunde in plau am see für den blick in die zukunft
gustav für die uns auf autobahnen, landstrassen und verstopften berliner strassen begleitende musik

der netten jungen frau bei der wismarer touri-information
den spontanen bandfotografen in der wismarer jugendherberge

elisabeth
karen
olga rabiata
astra-stube
zimt* & pfeffer
trike
nils
anna
karina
nina
mareike

der crew vom rosenberger ansfelden, die uns nach der sperrstunde noch essen gegeben hat


merci - děkuji - danke - thank you - gracias - спасибо
first fatal kisses

und so wars am meer...
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