Victims of the Communist regime in Serbia are seeking compensation in court.
Over the past three years, Serbian courts have paid out more than 700,000 euros in compensation to people whose rights were judged to have been violated by the Communist-era authorities, BalkanInsight.com reports.
According to the country’s Ministry of Justice, 1,106 requests were received between January 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015.
Serbia adopted a rehabilitation law in 2006. It allows people or the surviving relatives of those who claimed to have had their lives threatened or freedoms abused by the Communist regime to appeal to have their names cleared.
If the court recognises their claims as justified, applicants may expect the return of confiscated property or compensation.
Lately the last Yugoslav king, Peter II Karadjordjevic, has been rehabilitated. Now the descenrantsof the royal family have the opportunity to seek the return of their seized property – according to mass media estimations, it is worth tens of millions of euros. The Karadjordjevics were deprived of their villas, houses, land, furniture and pieces of art., etc when the royal family was ousted in 1945.
www.belsat.eu/en/, via BalkanInsight
