Serbia ranks eighth in Europe, according to the number of Serbian nationals' cases filed in Strasbourg.
Serbia's legal representative to the European Court for Human Rights, Slavoljub Caric, was quoted by the daily as saying that in the past, Serbians filed applications against the state mostly for the violation of the right to a fair trial or the right to have a trial within a reasonable time frame. In recent years, such cases have been reduced and there is an increasing number of complaints over the failure to enforce a final ruling.
"This has turned to be a serious problem as one third of some 3,500 applications refer to such cases," Caric said, adding that a recent report by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly branded Serbia as a country with problems stemming from the non-enforcement of final verdicts.
Therefore, the government has set up a task force to draw up an action plan to tackle this problem, he said.
Several complaints have arrived from Serbia this year in relation to torture in police stations or prisons.
Since 2004, the Strasbourg Court passed 51 judgements and 92 decisions in cases when Serbian nationals sued their country. Of those 51 judgements, three have been in favour of the state and 48 judgements have established violation of human rights.