characteristic also of other organizations, like Homeland Front "Obraz", which according to Nebojša M. Krstić, president of movement "verbally fights against abuses of human rights committed for the sake of legalization of sexually deviant homosexuals and lesbians and numerous sects in our country" Members of the organization chanted "Death to faggots" (). In February 2008, Obraz symbols were displayed at a Kosovo Serb rally in the northern part of the city of Kosovska Mitrovica and during the Kosovo is Serbia rally in protest against the independence of Kosovo. And in September 2009, they issued open threats of violence through propaganda posters to the organizers and participants of the Gay Pride Parade in Belgrade. On 11 July 2009, after the burial of 543 victims in Srebrenica, a group of men and women associated with Obraz "chanted insults directed towards the victims and in support of the Chetnik movement, calling for eradication of Islam". Legal status On 28 February 2009, the Human and Minority Rights Ministry of Serbia sought to close Obraz and submitted an initiative to look into the legality of its work. In 2011, Obraz was submitted to the constitutional court of Serbia to be forbidden as an extremist organization and to prevent its registration under a different name. The leader of this organization Mladen Obradović is accused for calls for lynch of the LGBT population in Serbia in 2009 and 2010. He was convicted for 10 months sentence for threatening LGBT people at the pride parade in 2009. He was also convicted for 2 years for the same crimes at the 2010 pride parade. On 12 June 2012, the Constitutional Court of Serbia declared Obraz illegal. Literature Byford, J.T. (2002). Christian right-wing organisations and the spreading of anti-Semitic prejudice in post-Miloševic Serbia: The case of the Dignity Patriotic Movement. East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 32(2), 42–60. References External links The Stephen Roth Institute Gay Serbia on Obraz IWPR - Serbian Radicals Elicit Church Sympathy IWPR - Serbia Faces Right-Wing Dilemma IWPR - Anti-Semitism Raises its Head in Serbia Women in Black; statement on Obraz Serbian nationalism Anti-Islam political parties in Europe Islamophobia in Europe Anti-Islam sentiment in Europe Antisemitism in Europe Anti-Zionism in Europe Defunct political organizations in Serbia Far-right politics in Serbia Christianity and antisemitism Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politics Organizations established in 1993 Organizations disestablished in 2012 1993 establishments in Serbia 2012 disestablishments in Serbia Anti-Americanism