Freedom House

14.November 2025 KS

Why is the internet not free in Serbia?

After the resolution of the European Parliament, the report of the European Commission and Reporters without Borders, not even Freedom House has a much better opinion of Serbia. For Vučić it is "stupidity"

Democracy

26.February 2025. MJ

Freedom House: Serbia has the seventh highest decline in freedoms and rights

Serbia is among the countries with the greatest decline in freedoms in the last decade, according to a report by Freedom House. Under the rule of Aleksandar Vučić, freedoms and human rights are continuously declining

Freedom House Report

17.October 2024 MS

Serbia is one step closer to "partial" freedom on the Internet

Out of a total of eight, two serious threats to freedom on the Internet were recorded in Serbia. There is an intensification of the control of content that is unfit for the authorities

Moscow's reaction

08.May 2024. IM / Beta

Russia put Freedom House on the list of undesirable organizations

The rationale is that Freedom House "calls for comprehensive aid to the Ukrainian military, confiscation of frozen Russian assets in favor of Ukraine, and increased sanctions pressure."

Freedom House report

11.April 2024. SZ

Escape of the Serbian regime from democracy: Minus two points for the media

According to the Freedom House report, democracy in Serbia is in the greatest decline of all countries in transition. The situation in the country is directly reflected in the media, NUNS General Secretary Tamara Filipović told Vreme

Nations in Transition 2023 Report

11.April 2024. IM / VOA

Freedom House: Democracy in Serbia is in the greatest decline of all countries in transition

Serbia recorded the biggest decline in democracy in the Freedom House report "Nations in Transition 2023", which covers 29 European and Asian countries. It is said that Serbia experienced a historic decline due to the efforts of President Aleksandar Vučić to consolidate power in 2023

29.February 2024. VOA

Freedom House: Serbia is the leader in Europe in the decline of civil liberties

According to the report of the American non-governmental organization based in New York, Freedom House, Serbia is the leader in Europe in the decline of civil liberties in 2023. Freedoms in Serbia have been continuously declining for ten years, and now it is in 114th place on a list that includes 210 countries.

24.May 2023. SP

Freedom House: Serbia is not a democracy

For the fourth year in a row, according to the Freedom House report, Serbia is not a democracy, but a "hybrid or transitional regime" with fragile democratic institutions and questionable protection of political and civil rights and freedoms. The quality of Serbian democracy was rated 3,79 on a scale of 1 to 7

News

20.April 2022. MN

Freedom House: An increasingly hybrid Serbia

In the new annual report of Freedom House, Serbia has been classified in the category of "hybrid regimes" for the third year in a row, and the quality of democracy, which is measured from one to seven, this year was rated 3,79, which is an even lower rating than the previous year.