A Serbian singer was banned from entering Montenegro for ten years for a song about the unity of Serbs and Montenegrins
Despite the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro lifted the ban on Serbian singer Vlado Georgiev from entering Montenegro, the Police Department of the city of Herceg Novi banned him from entering for 10 years.
The Serbian singer continues to be persecuted for his performance of Serbian patriotic songs at a charity festival in Herceg Novi last August, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro accepted the appeal of the Tomanovic Law Office, which represents the interests of Vlado Georgiev, and overturned the decision banning him from entering Montenegro.
At the same time, according to lawyers, the Herceg Novi Police Department during the retrial “went even further in violation of international standards and constitutionally guaranteed rights and did not act in accordance with legal and constitutional obligations, but made a legally unacceptable, illegal and unconstitutional decision.” .
“In international legal practice, a form of degrading treatment of an individual always exists when the state acts without a legitimate purpose, is disproportionately and deliberately offensive towards an individual, since a foreigner upon entering the country also has rights guaranteed by numerous international legal instruments,” it says. statement from the Tomanovich Law Office. “The legal order of Montenegro contains laws prohibiting discrimination, both direct and indirect, and therefore we are confident that the competent authority of the second instance will accept the legal argument and lift the new ban on Vlado Georgieva’s entry into Montenegro.”
The persecution of the Serbian singer, whose childhood was spent in Herceg Novi (Georgiev was born in the Croatian Dubrovnik, his mother is a Sarajevo Serb, his father is a Bulgarian from the Serbian Tsaribrod), began after his participation in a charity festival in support of Kosovo and Metohija in August 2019, in during which he performed the Serbian patriotic song from the First World War, “It’s Far Away,” and the song “Serbia and Montenegro – One Family.”
In these songs, local nationalists saw an attack on the territorial integrity of Montenegro, and after their complaints, two criminal cases were opened against Georgiev and he was banned from entering the country.
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