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The Serbian PEN Center said that the ban on the Miredita, Dobar Dan! festival and the Kikinda Short festival, the announced extradition to Belarus of director and journalist Andrei Gnyot, a member of the Belarusian PEN Center, and the ban on entry into Serbia for writer and actor Fedja Stukan, indicate deep social divisions and a resurgence of repressive models of an ideological state that do not befit a nominally democratic society.
In a statement titled Against Bans and Censorship, the Serbian PEN Center said it had hoped that the events mentioned had been long abandoned “as cautionary content of our social and political past."
The Serbian PEN Center called on the relevant state institutions to reexamine these decisions and refrain from using these dangerous precedents to shape a new social practice, because in addition to causing deepest concerns, such decisions also harm the country’s reputation.
It also called on the public in Serbia to stand up in defense of freedom of assembly and association, freedom of expression, and freedom of cultural exchange and public dialogue, emphasizing that cultural and literary events cannot pose a threat to a society.
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