A day after the large Vidovdan protest in Belgrade, eight more college students were arrested during the blockade. In response to repression, citizens and students organize blockades in several locations in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš...
Students are at protest on Saturday (June 28) gave the "green light", and the next day, many accepted it and began to physically block off the parts of the city they live in, responding to police brutality on Vidovdan protest and arrests the next day.
The center of Zemun is blocked, there are blockades in Milajkovac, Pancevački most...
The Gazelle is blocked.
The roundabout at Autokomanda is blocked.
Citizens' choirs of blocks 29 and 30 in Novi Beograd blocked traffic on Milutin Milankovica Boulevard tonight, expressing solidarity with the students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) who first started blocking in November last year, reports FoNet.
Citizens used containers to block the road in both directions at the corner with Art Boulevard, where the headquarters of the FDU is located. The traffic police deployed two patrol vehicles.
Požeška street on Banovo brdo is blocked.
Bikers gather at the Wolf Monument.
A large number of citizens gathered in front of the Palace of Justice in Savska Street and demanded the release of arrested students and citizens.
Blockades in Nis, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin
Nišlije are protesting in front of the Basic Court.
The residents of Novi Sad gathered on the university campus and blocked the turbo roundabout, the intersection near the Promenade, the intersection of Bulevara oslobodenja and Braće Ribnikar, the intersection near the Faculty of Medicine, the intersection of Futošga Market.
Choruses of citizens are protesting in Zrenjanin.
This is part of the protests organized on Sunday, June 29, the day after the big "See you on Vidovdan" protest, which ended with the police dispersing the crowd by pushing, batons and tear gas. Mass arrests followed.
Earlier that day, President Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić announced new arrests, and Police Minister Ivica Dacic said that at an "unannounced public gathering" the police detained 77 people, including one minor. 38 were detained, and criminal charges were filed against 35.
During the day, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office announced that on Sunday (June 29) Six people detained, and that the arrest action continues. The media reported on the arrest of the students.
Arrest rallies
On Sunday, students and citizens began to respond to the arrests and senseless indictments with new protests.
The students in the blockade called the citizens in front of the VJT building. At the same time, residents of Novi Sad gathered in the campus of the local university, and those of Nišlija in front of the courthouse, and the first to take to the streets were the residents of certain municipalities.
Due to the arrest of students of the Faculty of Agriculture, students and citizens' assemblies blocked center of Zemun.
Physical barriers have been installed, so there is no traffic.
"As a response to the police brutality and repression that the citizens suffer, the following is imposed: Decentralized controlled chaos. Be disobedient at the bar, everywhere and at any time," wrote on Iks (X) the students of the Faculty of Agriculture during the blockade.
Students in the blockade of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences said on their official X profile that "the green light is still on".
"Use it wisely. Here, for example, follow the example of the citizens of Zemun", they wrote on the X social network.
Their messages were quickly heard by the citizens of Voždovac, so that part of the city was soon blocked.
Residents of the Novobeograd blocks are also calling for a gathering.
"We invite all residents of the Sava and Bežani blocks to an emergency meeting tonight at 20:XNUMX p.m. at the corner of Gandijeva and Yuri Gagarin. We are gathering in support of students who are being arrested all over the city for fighting for justice and freedom. We will not be silent. We will not look from the sidelines. The blocks stand with the students. See you," they stated on the Instagram profile of the "block gatherings".
According to information from social networks, Konjarnik, Bežanijska kosa, Pančevački most, Banovo brdo, Miljakovac, Autokomanda are also blocked.
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Blockades in Novi Sad
The citizens of Novi Sad also gathered on Sunday evening.
The choirs of Novi Sad called on the citizens through social networks to gather at the campus of the University of Novi Sad from 20:XNUMX in order to defend the students.
The choirs add that more than 80 students were detained in Belgrade during the day.
"We don't know yet if this madness will spill over to Novi Sad, but we are there and we are guarding them. Come, everyone," Zborov said in their announcement.
Earlier today, the same Choirs condemned the brutal use of force against students and citizens at yesterday's protest in Belgrade, who "showed the courage to stand up against the autocracy".
"If we can't speak - then we'll be loud on the street. If we can't protest - then we'll block. If we can't choose - then we'll fight," Zborov stated, among other things.
Gathering in Niš
Representatives of the citizens' assemblies of Medijana and Palilula in Niš called on fellow citizens to gather tonight at 20 pm in front of the Basic Court building in Niš and support the arrested students, among whom is Dimitrije Dimić, a student of the Faculty of Law in Niš.
After the arrest of students in Belgrade on suspicion of having committed the criminal act of preparing an act against the constitutional order and security of Serbia, representatives of the citizens' assemblies of Mediana and Palilula called on the citizens to gather, Juzne Vesti writes.
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