Belgrade, August 3, 2025 — Albanian MP in the Serbian Parliament, Shaip Kamberi, has announced that he has filed a criminal complaint against the Speaker of the Serbian National Assembly, Ana Brnabić, for the criminal offense of inciting national, racial, and religious hatred.
Kamberi, along with fellow MPs Ahmedin Skrijelj and Minela Kalender, submitted the complaint following a controversial statement made by Brnabić during a press conference after recent protests in Novi Pazar.
“And we heard the call ‘Allahu Akbar’ and other disgusting things,” Brnabić said, referring to the protests.
Kamberi condemned the statement as stigmatizing and demonizing the Islamic faith, the identity of Muslim Albanians, and other communities who share the same belief. He argued that Brnabić’s words associate these groups with something “disgusting,” “dangerous,” and “foreign” — a mentality rooted in the nationalist traumas of the 1990s.
“This is not a political move,” Kamberi clarified. “It is a call for justice. Hate speech cannot remain merely a matter of political debate or public morality. Above all, it is a matter of legality and justice.”
The complaint signals rising concern over the normalization of discriminatory rhetoric in Serbia’s highest political institutions, especially amid growing interethnic tensions in the region.
