Hunger strike

19May 2025. BB

Our hunger strikes: From Vuk Drašković to Marija Vasić

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

Hunger and thirst strike by Marija Vasić

15May 2025. AI/IM

Care for a woman who can't shut up about injustice and won't ask for mercy

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

Radio-Television of Vojvodina

24march 2025 KS

Journalist Darko Speer ended his hunger strike

Darko Šper, journalist and trustee of the "Nezavisnost" trade union, ended his hunger strike after seven days, and the trade union headquarters will continue the fight with the management of Radio-television Vojvodina

Andrej Obradović is on hunger strike for the fifth day.

On the spot

16April 2024. Milica Srejić

Andrej Obradović's hunger strike: "I am not silent for justice!"

Andrej Obradović, who on February 14, the police broke into the apartment where he lives with his roommate and subjected him to "brutality, torture, psychological, physical and sexual abuse" for several hours, has been on hunger strike for five days. If the competent institutions do not respond to his demands by tomorrow evening, he also announces the radicalization of the strike

Post-election protests

28December 2023 Jelena Zoric

A night with hunger strikers: Faith in better tomorrows

I left the building where RIK is located late at night. Opponents who are on hunger strike got ready to sleep for several hours on uncomfortable couches and mattresses. I left them with the thought that they were losing physical strength faster than faith in better mornings

Dimitrije Dinić in front of the Presidency of Serbia

Politics

02September 2023 Ivona Simonović

Student from Nis: I was ordered to be taken into custody as soon as they saw me on the street

Dimitrije Dimić, a student of the Faculty of Law in Niš, known to the public for his hunger strike in front of the Presidency due to the unfulfilled demands of the "Serbia against violence" protest, was arrested without grounds. In the underground passage near Autokomanda, two uniformed police officers approached him and said that they had been ordered to take him into custody as soon as they found him.