Marija Vasić, a professor of sociology from Novi, does not feel any relief that the former president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, pardoned her. She is angry that she was denied the opportunity to refute the senseless accusation of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order in court with other members of the "Novi Sad group".
The director of the Novi Sad high school "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" handed the suspensions to the teachers and said that they were permanently removed from their jobs and were subject to disciplinary measures
The previous members of the PSG leadership, including the president and deputy president of the Novi Sad board, submitted their irrevocable resignations and announced their withdrawal from the party membership due to irreconcilable differences in political activity.
Six months after she won freedom for herself and her co-defendants through a hunger and thirst strike, Novi Sad professor and activist Marija Vasić tells Vreme that "everything needs to stop" because of Dijana Hrka and Jaćimović.
Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović and Lazar Dinić, the "terrorists" who were accused of allegedly preparing a coup d'état before the protest in Belgrade on March 15, were released from house arrest. They are still being tried, but now they can defend themselves from freedom. These are their confessions
Professor Marija Vasić, accused of preparing a coup d'état, reveals what everyday life looks like behind prison doors and how the state treats those who dare to think differently
Three of the six activists and students from the group STAV and the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG), who were accused of allegedly preparing a coup ahead of the March 15 protest in Belgrade, have been released from house arrest
Activists were arrested for allegedly preparing a coup on March 15, at a large protest in Belgrade. The ground for their arrest was prepared by pro-regime television stations with national frequencies by broadcasting an illegally created recording of their conversation.
Novi Sad is not such a small city, but it seems that everything is known there. And that Miloš Vučević accused Marija Vasić, who was in prison for months, that she wrote the graffiti. And that Vasić educated his son, but also that because of the same son he indirectly became the former prime minister of the country
Six people falsely accused of terrorism are languishing under house arrest. They are still facing multi-year prison terms. And we seem to have forgotten about the "Novi Sad group"
The Beldocs Documentary Film Festival came of age with a clear demand to release the activists, giving recognition to all educational and university workers.
President Aleksandar Vučić's statement that the SNS will block the courts in Novi Sad raises serious questions about the attitude of the executive power towards the independence of the judiciary. While the courts are being accused of "injustice" and "color revolution", the president is sending a message that looks less and less like an institutional dialogue and more and more like an open confrontation with all those who are not loyal to him
The Court of Appeal in Novi Sad partially accepted the appeal of the defenders of the arrested activists and ordered house arrest with electronic monitoring for Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović and Lazar Dinić. They are prohibited from using the phone, the Internet and contacts with other people, and the measure will last until August 20.
Professor of sociology Marija Vasić is still on hunger strike in the Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade, where she is placed in the psychiatric ward. Her lawyer, Aleksandar Petrović, warns that Vasić cannot walk, is receiving infusions and antibiotics, but that she is determined to persevere until the court decides on the fate of the detained activists.
Keeping sociology professor Marija Vasić in prison on charges of terrorism is an anti-civilization crime. Or grotesque, whatever you want. Why don't judges, prosecutors, policemen, security guards rebel against it
The citizens of Serbia have become so accustomed to other people's suffering and become numb to it that they do not perceive the hunger strike as a desperate move of self-sacrifice, but as a marketing trick. Politicians who entered it calculatingly are responsible for that
After several days of hunger and thirst strike, detained professor Marija Vasić was transferred to the Special Prison Hospital in Belgrade, where she was connected to an infusion, announced the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions. On the other hand, the European Commission expressed concern about the deterioration of the health condition and called the authorities in Serbia to account
The family and lawyers do not know if Marija Vasić is still alive. They know that, during the hunger and thirst strike, she was taken to the prison hospital
Citizens from different parts of Belgrade and Serbia gathered in front of the Central Prison to support Marija Vasić, a member of the Free Citizens Movement. Her hospitalization after the hunger strike caused violent reactions and led to a spontaneous gathering, accompanied by slogans and symbols of civil resistance.
"That's what bothers this regime - educated people who notice what fascism is, and fascism is what you're looking at now," says the son of Marija Vasić
The police used pepper spray against citizens and students and stood in front of the official entrance of the High Court in Novi Sad
The Republic of Serbia is in danger. If we remain silent on the rigged process against political prisoners in Novi Sad and the Kraljeva case where the victims were declared violent, soon we will all go on hunger and thirst strikes for a shred of justice
Marija Vasić, professor of sociology at the Jovin High School in Novi Sad, who went on a hunger and thirst strike after two months of detention, was transferred to the prison hospital. Her husband and her godmother talk to "Vreme" about Maria, their worries and what they are going through
Vasić has been in custody for almost two months, as well as students and activists Lazar Dinić, Davor Stefanović, Srđan Đurić, Mladen Cvijetić and Lado Jovović, and they are accused of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, based on their wiretapped conversation, which was broadcast on regime television.
Professor Marija Vasić, an arrested activist of the Movement of Free Citizens in Novi Sad, announced that she will start a hunger strike if she and five other arrested people are not released from custody
Secret recording can be evidence in criminal proceedings only if it was carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act that regulate special evidentiary actions, lawyer Aleksandar Petrović told Vreme.
