The prosecution's proposal to try students and activists from Novi Sad who are accused of the alleged crime of demolition constitutional order, which are located abroad.
Mila Pajić, Branislav Đorđević, Anja Pitulić, Jovan Dražić, Doroteja Antić and Dejan Bagarić are outside Serbia. Their colleagues who were taken away together with them - Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović, Mladen Cvijetić, Srđan Đurić, Davor Stefanović and Lazar Dinić were arrested on March 14 and after more than two months in prison, they are currently under house arrest.
The Prosecutor's Office charges them all together with the criminal offense of "preparation of an act against the constitutional order and security of Serbia as co-perpetrators", in connection with the criminal offense of "attacking the constitutional order" and the criminal offense of "calling for a violent change of the constitutional order".
On March 12, the Prosecutor's Office, after filing an indictment against the activists from Novi Sad, submitted a request to the High Court in Novi Sad to start a trial in absentia for six of them who are not in Serbia.
The non-trial criminal panel of the High Court decided to reject that request, that is, to accept the explanation of the lawyer who submitted the address of his client abroad, writes "Danas".
The prosecution did not even try to contact activists who are not in Serbia abroad, and demanded a trial in absentia, that is, the fact that someone has crossed the border does not automatically mean that he is unavailable to the court.
Whether a warrant will be issued for the activists from Novi Sad at some point in this case, no one knows for now. As Serbian citizens, they could be extradited from other countries as required by international extradition regulations, if it is not about political asylum.
The case is also interesting because the court material, which was marked as strictly confidential in the proceedings, ended up in all the regime media before the arrest of the activist, which is a recording of a eavesdropped conversation.