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Miljuš: Pegasus, GOSI, Thugs and Plainclothes Police Have All Been Part of the Pressure for a Decade

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Branko Miljuš of Serbia’s opposition Freedom and Justice Party said critics of the government had faced surveillance and intimidation through various methods for a decade.
  • The SHARE Foundation said at least 14 people were targeted by advanced spyware in early 2026, while Serbia’s intelligence agency dismissed the students’ claims as sensationalism.
  • Miljuš said his party would dissolve the Security Intelligence Agency and prosecute those responsible if the current government left office.

Serbian opposition lawmaker Branko Miljuš said the issue was not what the surveillance software was called, but the broader pressure directed at government critics.

Commenting on claims that students and opposition representatives had been targeted with Pegasus spyware, Miljuš said opposition figures, journalists and others who disagreed with the authorities had spent a decade facing different forms of tracking and monitoring. “It is all part of the pressure,” he told Danas, referring to Pegasus, a service he labeled GOSI, hired enforcers and plainclothes police.

It is all part of the pressure.

· Branko MiljušMiljuš described Pegasus, surveillance services, enforcers and plainclothes police as different forms of pressure on government critics.

Miljuš, a member of the Freedom and Justice Party presidency and a Serbian parliamentarian, said he had also been filmed while walking to a bakery, visiting a cafe or traveling. He said the footage was later published by “regime propaganda services that falsely present themselves as media.”

That is why we guarantee, and it is also written in the SSP program, that immediately after this government is replaced we will dissolve the Security Intelligence Agency, which stands behind these scandalous violations of basic human rights, and prosecute all those ‘runners’ who target Serbia’s citizens.

· Branko MiljušMiljuš outlined his party’s proposed response if the current government left office.

He said the pressure aimed to stop critics from speaking and fighting for what they believed in, but added that they had not been frightened or surprised. “That is why we guarantee, and it is also written in the SSP program, that immediately after this government is replaced we will dissolve the Security Intelligence Agency, which stands behind these scandalous violations of basic human rights, and prosecute all those ‘runners’ who target Serbia’s citizens,” he said.

At the first conference held by students involved in blockades, organizers said more than 10 students and opposition members in Serbia had been targeted by spyware since the start of the year. The SHARE Foundation said it had identified at least 14 people targeted by advanced spyware in early 2026. The Security Intelligence Agency rejected the students’ claims as “ordinary trivial sensationalism.”

Ordinary trivial sensationalism.

· Serbia’s Security Intelligence AgencyThe agency dismissed claims by students that people had been targeted with spyware.
About this summary

Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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