Photo: Printscreen N1"This is a classic example of competent institutions performing work for which they are not competent. We, the students, are fighting for justice and law, while the BIA should deal with those who violate the constitutional order, and not put pressure on citizens who are fighting for a better society," said Lazar Stojaković, a student at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, who on Thursday, he was invited to an informative interview with the Security Information Agency (BIA).
Stojaković stated that students are not afraid of Cobra's intervention, which was mentioned by President Vučić as a possibility to break up the protest.
"I believe that every honorable member of the Cobras is revolted by the president's statement. No soldier wants to attack the people and 'scatter' them. I am sure that most of them share our values, while a few commanders are under the influence of the authorities," he said.
Commenting on the invitation of the Security Information Agency (BIA) to "a friendly conversation", Stojakovic said that he did not hope for that.
"This is a classic example of competent institutions performing work for which they are not competent. We, the students, are fighting for justice and law, while the BIA should deal with those who violate the constitutional order, and not put pressure on citizens who are fighting for a better society," he pointed out.
When asked if something has changed in the people since the students started the protests, Stojaković said that he felt in Slavija ""incredible energy."
"The people are waking up. At Slavia, we saw how much the people are with us. I think that our persistence and resourcefulness, as we responded to the attacks of those who tried to suppress the blockades, gave them hope for a better future. This system has been stifling every glimmer of hope in people for decades. Now the system doesn't know how to react," he pointed out.
Is friendly chat legal?
After Stojaković announced on his Instagram account on Thursday that the BIA had invited him for an informative interview at the police station, independent MP Slavica Radovanović accused the government of violating the Constitution, laws and all other documents related to the rights and protection of citizens by abusing the BIA .
"The invitation to students or any citizen of Serbia to have a 'friendly conversation' is not formally or legally regulated, that is, it does not exist," emphasized Slavica Radovanović in a written statement.
She also pointed out that the Law on Criminal Procedure provides for an interview with a citizen only for the purpose of gathering the necessary information, and only by written invitation, with an indication of the reason, place and time of the interview and the mandatory preparation of an official note on the content of the interview with the objections of the person with whom it is conducted. conversation and to whom a copy of such note must be given.
"This kind of arbitrariness, arrogance and abuse of power speaks of only one thing, and that is that everyone who thinks differently and represents a danger to the lifelong rule of the Serbian Progressive Party should be sheltered, blackmailed, destroyed and crushed," said Radovanović.
According to her, all these actions are carried out under the baton of exclusively unprofessional and incompetent party cadres, ready for any illegal act, just to stay in power and to please the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, because "he keeps them in power, in his fist, masters and governs their lives, to which they all consent knowingly and with interest".
The role of prosecutors and investigating judges
The security and information agency can eavesdrop and organize secret monitoring, but under different conditions and according to a different procedure than the monitoring and eavesdropping that is carried out in criminal proceedings.
Slavica Radovanović emphasized that the application of special measures from the Law on BIA requires an explained proposal of the director of the agency and the approval of the president of the High Court in Belgrade.
"Since in Serbia, with the coming to power of the SNS, few things function as provided for by law, that is why a logical question arises, and that is what is the actual role of the prosecutors who, together with the judge for the preliminary proceedings - the former investigative judge - should convince the court that under specific conditions, apart from classic pre-investigative actions, secret surveillance of communications is also necessary," said Slavica Radovanović.
Reported due to spyware
International organization Amnesty International and research by BIRN showed that the BIA also inserted spyware into the phones of journalists and activists. Representatives of civil society therefore submitted criminal charges against unknown persons in the BIA and the police.
Research by BIRN and Amnesty International's forensic analysis showed that the BIA, using the Israeli Cellebrite technology, unlocked the phones of the activists it called or brought in for interviews, and then inserted the domestic spy program NoviSpy into those devices.
They didn't just stop at collecting messages and contacts - they went into private photos, followed families, turned on cameras and microphones.
The representative of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCBP), Dušan Pokuševski, specified that the criminal complaint against "NN persons" was submitted to the BIA and the police due to suspicion of three criminal acts, namely the unauthorized collection of personal data, the creation and introduction of computer viruses and unauthorized access to protected computer, computer network and electronic data processing.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs denied such allegations.
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