ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - The Croatian Helsinki Committee for human rights (HHO) on Tuesday stressed Croatian authorities leniently observed occurrences of the revival of fascism and sympathies towards the Ustashi. The HHO said this
was confirmed by the recent Zagreb criminal court hearing against the president of the City Human Rights Council, Zoran Pusic. Pusic has been charged with being the initiator of an unregistered protest rally on May 9, 1998, whose aim was to give back the Square of Croatian Great Men its former name the Square of Victims of Fascism. HHO finds proof that Croatian authorities tolerated the revival of neo-nazism in the fact that police had filed charged against Pusic, but had never reacted to the fact that thirty people had disturbed and provoked participants of the rally with nazi salutes, singing Ustasha songs and shouting out insults. The HHO said in a statement Zagreb police had v
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - The Croatian Helsinki Committee for human
rights (HHO) on Tuesday stressed Croatian authorities leniently
observed occurrences of the revival of fascism and sympathies
towards the Ustashi.
The HHO said this was confirmed by the recent Zagreb criminal court
hearing against the president of the City Human Rights Council,
Zoran Pusic.
Pusic has been charged with being the initiator of an unregistered
protest rally on May 9, 1998, whose aim was to give back the Square
of Croatian Great Men its former name the Square of Victims of
Fascism.
HHO finds proof that Croatian authorities tolerated the revival of
neo-nazism in the fact that police had filed charged against Pusic,
but had never reacted to the fact that thirty people had disturbed
and provoked participants of the rally with nazi salutes, singing
Ustasha songs and shouting out insults.
The HHO said in a statement Zagreb police had verbally guaranteed
Pusic that the rally could be held without a written permission, and
that they would provide security.
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