In Serbia, physical abuse of suspects for criminal offenses by police officers has become common, which sometimes ends in death, as in the case of the suspect from Bor. Cases of torture and ill-treatment in the police, detention units and prisons were also recorded in the report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Physical ill-treatment Injuries during arrest Mental ill-treatment Brutality towards demonstrators
The death of DD, suspected of hiding the body of the girl Danka Ilić, in the police station in Bor has reopened the issue of torture and abuse in institutions in Serbia. Although the Institute for Forensic Medicine in Belgrade completed the autopsy and made a report stating that the death of DD (40) was violent, the Higher Prosecutor’s Office in Zaječar is still not responding adequately. Radar learns that the doctor who performed the autopsy immediately, which was three weeks ago, called on the phone
