Linglong

Foreign workers

12.February 2026. KS

The Prosecutor's Office is investigating a complaint about human trafficking and exploitation of workers from Bangladesh in Zrenjanin

The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Zrenjanin launched an investigation into allegations of possible human trafficking and serious violations of the rights of workers from Bangladesh engaged in the Linglong factory, following warnings from civil society organizations and reports from the workers themselves.

Labor rights

30.January 2026 KS

Linglong's Leased Workers: New Methods of Oppression and Intimidation

After earlier scandals due to the violation of workers' rights, the Linglong factory in Zrenjanin is applying new methods of pressure on workers. Bangladeshi workers who dared to report abuses are now under attack

Personal attitude

20.December 2025 Tara Rukeci Milivojevic

The ban on the import of Linglong tires from Serbia to the USA: Imperial regulation of the market

The US ban on the import of tires produced in Serbia by Linglong exposes the systemic fragility of an order in which capital circulates freely, while workers around the world are forced to compete with each other in renouncing their rights

Violation of labor rights

19.December 2025 KS

Forced labor: US stops importing Linglong tires

The US Customs Service issued an order to detain shipments of Linglong, citing evidence of labor rights violations in production

Economy

19.September 2025 B. B.

The losses of the Linglong factory in Zrenjanin are growing

The net loss of the Linglong factory in Zrenjanin in the first half of the year was 16,6 million euros, which is 6,4 million euros more than the loss from the first half of 2024.

Initiative

24.August 2025 S.Ć.

EXPRESSION: The Linglong factory should be abolished

The Zrenjanin initiative IZRAZ appeals to the judicial authorities to cancel all acts that were passed under the pressure of implementing political will during the illegal construction of the Linglong car tire factory

25.November 2024 TS

Civic upheaval: The court confirmed that the Linglong factory was built illegally

The Administrative Court annulled the decision of the City Administration of Zrenjanin from 2020 by which consent was given to a partial study on the environmental impact assessment of the Chinese factory Linglong. Civic upheaval claims that this calls into question the legality of its construction and requires an urgent response from the competent institutions

Economy

13.September 2024 MS

Linglong in Zrenjanin: Chinese tire factory officially opens its doors - controversies remain

A Chinese tire factory officially opens with government officials in attendance, while legal and environmental violations remain unresolved

A residential and commercial complex is planned to be built near the Linglong factory

Zrenjanin

24.August 2024 MS

A residential and commercial complex is planned to be built near the Linglong factory

The case of workers from Vietnam and later workers from India who worked on the construction of a tire factory in Zrenjanin is one of the more extreme cases of exploitation of foreign workers by foreign investors. That company is now planning to build a residential and business complex near its factory (Linglong) in Zrenjanin

Labor rights

02.February 2024. RV / N1

Indian workers employed in Linglong are guarded by the police

The workers' passports were not returned, nor were they paid back wages

Overview of the week

02.February 2024. Philip Schwarm

We and the Son of Man

How much does cutting off a third of Indian workers' wages really mean to Linglong? Who alone will benefit if Šapić forms the government in Belgrade? And what obstetric violence, teacher humiliation and EXPO 27 say about the government's priorities

Serbia against violence

01.July 2023 S.Ć.

Ninth protest: It is the first of July, and there are demonstrations all over Serbia

Protest marches and blockades were held today in 15 cities of Serbia. In Belgrade, the protest is still going on. The first Constitution of liberated Serbia was written in this place, from now on we have a state, which is an extended arm of the mafia, it was said in Kragujevac

Workers' rights

24.April 2023. Z.S.

Amendments to the law: Procedures for hiring foreign labor are shortened

By amending the Law on the Employment of Foreigners, the Government of Serbia is trying to shorten the procedure for obtaining a work permit. Experts warn that Serbia is apparently strategically opting for the import of cheap labor, instead of improving the labor rights of its citizens

In the new issue

16.June 2022 Nedim Sejdinovic

The Case of Linglong: A Colonial Package-Arrangement

Are the authorities' statements that the citizens of Serbia, especially those in Banat, will benefit greatly from this tire factory in Zrenjanin? "The bragging of the authorities in connection with Linglong is becoming rarer and quieter because the reality is becoming obvious," Duško Kokot from Civic Upheaval told "Vreme". "From that factory, we received a violation of the equality of actors on the market, slave labor, human trafficking, animal abuse, full orthopedics for those injured on the construction site, and it will be filled with oncology when production begins. All of Serbia will eat contaminated food from Banat"

News

16.December 2021 SP

Urgent EP resolution on Serbia: Hooligans, police, ecology and modern slavery

Members of the European Parliament have condemned the violence of hooligans during recent environmental protests, their relationship with the police and the "modern slavery" of Vietnamese workers in China's Linglong factory. Aleksandar Vulin told them not to "heal their frustrations in Serbia"