by Jeff Gimm
The U.S based Human Rights watch recently issued a report highlighting concerns within Croatia. The primary concerns were with war crimes tribunals, the treatment of the mentally ill and freedom of the press. The report alleges that the government of Croatia has withheld documents for the War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, as well as the dispraportionate amount of defendents who are Serbian. According to BSAANA News, the case against the mentally ill surrounds ""excessive and unnecessary forced institutionalisation of people on the grounds of mental illness". The document cites the case of Ana Dragicevic "who was placed in a psychiatric hospital by her parents at age 16 in 2004, after they learned of her romantic relationship with another girl. She was released from the institution in May 2008 after an intervention by the State Attorney's Office, following a long campaign by the local media and a civil society organisation."" The report also details that while attacks against journalists were down in 2008, there was still limited advancements in investigating attacks against journalists. All of this does not carry well for a nation which wishes to enter the EU by 2012
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