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2026-03-06 19:05:00, Opinione Refik Hasani

The lawsuit in the Strasbourg Court highlights discrimination in the

Serbia continues to violate, infringe, deny, and discriminate against fundamental individual and collective rights, therefore, a Resolution was adopted on July 8, 2022, by the European Parliament, which requests an investigation into the passivation of addresses for Albanians of Preševo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, on ethnic cleansing-systematic discrimination, and will appear in the Progress Report on Serbia for 2021, the text of amendment 79, which was proposed and then fully approved by MEPs.

The European Parliament, for the passivation of addresses on ethnic cleansing-discrimination, has been continuously raising a discussion with facts and evidence for more than a decade, and recently the European Parliament, even in its report of May 2, 2025, clearly emphasizes that they denounce the systemic ethnic cleansing-discrimination against Albanians in South Serbia, which the report states that the cancellation of their residential addresses deprives them of the right to vote, access to healthcare and personal documents.

With great influence and international relevance is the European Parliament, then in the wake of this, the draft law-RESOLUTION was also presented, initiated by American Congressman Keith SELF, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe who on January 21, 2026, at the meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress, proposing with well-founded reasoning the Resolution with number HR 6411.

The lawsuit filed on March 2, 2026, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, although it was filed and registered with the Court for an individual, but in such cases, since it concerns violations of fundamental human rights, there are violations of EU Acts and Conventions, and international ones, they constitute a violation and cause a denial of the realization of basic human rights, in many areas, and systematically.

The European Court in Strasbourg, after elaborating on many, sufficient evidence, this is also assisted by reports from credible international media, which have conducted dozens of investigative research, assistance is provided by several organizations for the Protection and Freedoms of Human Rights and Freedoms, in Serbia, and then there are reports from the Organization for the Protection and Freedoms of Human Rights and Freedoms, in Europe. This Court possesses the facts, and will decide that all affected, injured parties be compensated in relation to this issue and that the action, the discriminatory administrative process or the mechanism of passivation of addresses by Serbia be prohibited, as an ethnic cleansing-discrimination, against Albanians.

The European Court in Strasbourg will also include the continuous reports of the OSCE itself, without forgetting works and treatises such as scientific and academic research, which emphasize with facts and references that the passivation of addresses is not an individual or isolated action, but the administrative apparatus of Serbia itself, as a mechanism built in a haphazard manner, with the aim of achieving an objective - the silent ethnic cleansing - the discrimination of the Serbian state, which is passivating addresses in an alarming manner, are totally blocked by the passivation of addresses.

I remind the general public, according to the records that are in our possession and are accessible, a lawsuit was filed in the Republic of Slovenia, for almost identical treatment and review regarding the passivation of the address of a Citizen belonging to a Minority in this State. The Strasbourg Court has issued a final decision and Slovenia has been punished with 3% of the budget related to the passivation mechanism that they have implemented towards their Minorities.

The selective deregistration of addresses in Serbia for Albanians only, with a special emphasis on Albanians from Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, is an ethnic cleansing-discrimination, and this phenomenon that Albanians are facing also represents the fate of 25 thousand Albanian citizens, not only from this region, but it is worth practicing not only for Albanians but also throughout Serbia.

In the final decision issued by the European Court of Strasbourg, after arguments during the hearings, and letters addressed to the highest instances of Serbia, and this implies a battle and triumph, a challenge awaiting to put an end to ethnic cleansing-discrimination, not only for the Albanians harmed as sanctioned in the Province that includes Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, but for all Albanians of Serbia, who have been faced with the passivation of addresses.

The resolution adopted on July 8, 2022, by the European Parliament, and the draft law-RESOLUTION, with number HR 6411, on January 21, 2026, by the USA, now on March 2, 2026, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg registers the lawsuit with abundant and indisputable evidence and facts on the systematic violations committed against the citizen of Serbia belonging to the ethnic-autochthonous Albanian nationality, Ms. Teuta Fazliu, from Bujanovac, who has not been stopped by the bureaucratic and challenging legal battles of complaints and initiation of procedures on passivation.

All these factors indicate that the lawsuit filed on March 2, 2026, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, regarding the deactivation of addresses for Albanians in the Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac regions, has a real possibility of leading to a finding of discrimination in the deactivation of addresses - as an ethnic cleansing.