Surveillance

The SHARE Foundation published forensic findings confirming that at least 14 people in Serbia had been targeted with commercial spyware since the beginning of 2026: members of the student movement, opposition activists, one member of parliament and one local councillor. Analysis carried out with the Citizen Lab and the Amnesty International Security Lab identified Pegasus, delivered through a zero-click exploit, and a new version of the domestic NoviSpy. The MP among the targets, Radomir Lazović, said the server infrastructure led to the BIA. No state body responded to the findings.

Interpol notified Serbian authorities that it would not issue international arrest warrants against six of the twelve Novi Sad students and activists charged with preparing acts against the constitutional order, a group that has spent sixteen months abroad in political exile. The organisation, which does not act in matters of a political character, assessed the case as political in nature. The report reached the Higher Court in Novi Sad and the defence, which announced it would again seek to lift the detention and the warrants so the six could return and attend their own trial.

Police in Novi Sad arrested six people on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of preparing acts against the constitutional order and security of Serbia, in connection with the offense of inciting the violent overthrow of the constitutional order. Among those arrested were activists from the opposition party Movement of Free Citizens and the activist group “Attitude”. Another six activists from Novi Sad were in Croatia at the time of the arrests, and warrants were later issued for them.