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SIG-SRB-072

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country
Serbia
date text
Feb 2025
actor text
Ministry of Interior
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-006
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.
date confidence
month_year
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."
id
SIG-SRB-072
incident id
SRB-072
normalized date
2025-02-01
observation
country
Serbia
actor primary
Ministry of Interior
actor type primary
Government Official
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-006
campaign phase
Phase 4: Institutional Operationalization
case id
SRB-072
channel primary
Official/Regulatory
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.
consequence category
Legal/Administrative; Social Trust Erosion
date confidence
month_year
escalation stage
4
event date normalized
2025-02-01
event date raw
Feb 2025
harm track
Both
institutional consequence
Council for CSO Cooperation frozen; 28 NGOs suspend government cooperation; 13 foreign activists detained without legal basis
primary narrative code
NF-09
primary narrative label
Political Interference
secondary narrative code
NF-01
secondary narrative label
Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
signal id
SIG-SRB-072
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."
source type
Official/Regulatory
tactic code
Arbitrary detention; Security framing of international CSO cooperation; Administrative pressure on cooperation bodies
target
Civil society sector; 28 leading NGOs
target type
Sector
trigger type
TR-02: Civic Mobilization
source type
Official/Regulatory
target text
Civil society sector; 28 leading NGOs

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