# Amnesty International

International human rights organisation whose December 2024 report “A Digital Prison”, produced with BIRN, showed that the BIA and the police secretly installed NoviSpy spyware on the phones of activists and journalists during informational interviews; it attributes the software to the BIA “with a high degree of confidence”. It also documented police violence at the protests in July 2020, with more than 70 people seriously injured, and called the checks on the bank accounts of journalists and NGOs “an unmistakable act of intimidation”.

## Affairs

- [Police violence at the protests against the curfew](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/protesti-jul-2020): Its report cited more than 70 people seriously injured, 223 arrested, and no police officer prosecuted by the end of 2020
- [Anti-money laundering administration ran checks on journalists and NGOs](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/provera-racuna-novinara-nvo-2020): It called the check „an undoubted act of intimidation“ and demanded that the investigation be halted
- [NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/spijunski-softver-novispy): On 16 December 2024 it published the report "A Digital Prison" on the NoviSpy spyware and the Cellebrite tool

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/amnesty-international  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)