{"id":"SIG-SRB-072","country":"Serbia","excerpt":"CINGO Sep 2025: \"28 of Serbia's leading NGOs formally announced the suspension of cooperation and communication with government institutions in February 2025. They stated that the state was maintaining a façade of democratic inclusion while simultaneously deploying security and prosecutorial tools against activists and pushing a draft foreign agents law.\" January 2025: all NGO delegates to Council for CSO Cooperation jointly froze membership following arbitrary detention of 13 activists at Erste Foundation training. Ministry of Interior: \"unacceptable security risk.\"","date_text":"Feb 2025","actor_text":"Ministry of Interior","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-006","incident_id":"SRB-072","observation":{"target":"Civil society sector; 28 leading NGOs","case_id":"SRB-072","country":"Serbia","signal_id":"SIG-SRB-072","harm_track":"Both","source_url":"","campaign_id":"SRB-CAMP-006","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","tactic_code":"Arbitrary detention; Security framing of international CSO cooperation; Administrative pressure on cooperation bodies","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-02: Civic Mobilization","actor_primary":"Ministry of Interior","campaign_phase":"Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization","event_date_raw":"Feb 2025","channel_primary":"Official/Regulatory","date_confidence":"month_year","confidence_notes":"Jan 2025 (Council freeze) + Feb 2025 (NGO suspension). Coded Feb 2025 as culminating event. Primary source: CINGO second report Sep 2025. Part of SRB-CAMP-006 Feb-March 2025 arc. Exact dates TBC from joint NGO statement primary source.","escalation_stage":"4","actor_type_primary":"Government Official","source_text_excerpt":"CINGO Sep 2025: \"28 of Serbia's leading NGOs formally announced the suspension of cooperation and communication with government institutions in February 2025. They stated that the state was maintaining a façade of democratic inclusion while simultaneously deploying security and prosecutorial tools against activists and pushing a draft foreign agents law.\" January 2025: all NGO delegates to Council for CSO Cooperation jointly froze membership following arbitrary detention of 13 activists at Erste Foundation training. Ministry of Interior: \"unacceptable security risk.\"","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative; Social Trust Erosion","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2025-02-01","primary_narrative_code":"NF-09","primary_narrative_label":"Political Interference","secondary_narrative_code":"NF-01","institutional_consequence":"Council for CSO Cooperation frozen; 28 NGOs suspend government cooperation; 13 foreign activists detained without legal basis","secondary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence"},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Official/Regulatory","target_text":"Civil society sector; 28 leading NGOs","date_confidence":"month_year","normalized_date":"2025-02-01","confidence_notes":"Jan 2025 (Council freeze) + Feb 2025 (NGO suspension). Coded Feb 2025 as culminating event. Primary source: CINGO second report Sep 2025. Part of SRB-CAMP-006 Feb-March 2025 arc. Exact dates TBC from joint NGO statement primary source.","secondary_source_url":""}