This morning at around 09:20, around twenty police officers from the Criminal Police Directorate entered the premises of Civic Initiatives, stating that they had an order from the Prosecutor's Office to control the organization's work, but they did not want to show the search warrant, Civic Initiatives announced.

As they say, at the same time, police also raided the Center for Practical Politics at the Human Rights House, an organization that, they add, has no USAID project at all – despite regime media outlets Informer, RTS and Kurir claiming that the raids are related to USAID funding of civil society.

"This is a serious attack on fundamental civil rights and a continuation of the illegal pressure on civil society in Serbia. The ruling structures are trying to implement mechanisms of intimidation and persecution without adopting the Law on Foreign Agents, which has entered parliamentary procedure, but has not yet been officially adopted. This use of the police for political purposes represents a major misuse of state institutions to crack down on dissidents and the ongoing suppression of free and democratic action in Serbia," Nisma says, reports N1.

Citizen initiatives strongly condemn this attack on civil society organizations and demand that the competent authorities immediately explain the basis for such an action and stop the misuse of institutions for political purposes. They also await the reaction of domestic and international opinion on this, as they say, reckless violation of democratic values ​​and legal certainty.