The extension of the detention of Novi Sad activists caused a new wave of court blockades. Although the Gendarmerie broke the blockade of the court in Nis, the protest in Novi Sad is still going on. Protests were also announced in Belgrade and Kragujevac
The blockade of the Basic Court in Nis ended at 15:6.30 a.m. on Thursday (May XNUMX), after the Gendarmerie squad surrounded the entrance to the building, and the students withdrew peacefully.
On Wednesday around 22 p.m., students blocked the entrance to the courthouse as a sign of protest two-month detention extended Novi Sad activists and students Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) and organizations Students against authoritarian government (STAV).
They spent the night there, and they intended to stay in front of the court until 16 p.m., reports the correspondent of Beta.
Nevertheless, students and citizens left the intersection in front of the court around 7.30:XNUMX a.m. and went to the Police Department in Niš when it was announced that one of the war veterans who participated in the blockade had been arrested.
Blockade in Novi Sad
While the blockade of the court in Nis has ended, the blockade of the judicial buildings in Novi Sad continues.
In front of the court building and the prosecutor's office in Novi Sad, a little before eight o'clock this morning, there was a push with the police who tried to ensure that the employees were allowed to enter.
All three entrances to the building secured by members of the intervention police and the Gendarmerie are blocked.
About fifty employees tried to enter the back entrance of the building, but a group of citizens prevented them.
There was also a push with members of the intervention unit of the police, which was helped by members of the Gendarmerie.
Tear gas or pepper spray was thrown at citizens in the front rows, said one student, reports N1.
Activists' detention extended
The protests in Niš and Novi Sad were organized because the detention of activists and students of PSG and STAV, who have been in detention for two months, was extended.
Protests on the same occasion were announced today in Belgrade and Kragujevac.
Six activists and students of the opposition Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) and the Students Against Authoritarian Authority (STAV) organization have been in custody for 60 days since they were accused of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, and the court extended their detention for another 30 days on Tuesday.
One of the detained activists, Marija Vasić, professor of sociology at the "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj" high school in Novi Sad, after the court's decision to extend detention she went on hunger and thirst strike, and refuses to receive an infusion.
Six more STAV activists are charged with the same crime, and they were abroad at the time of their arrest, where they are still today.
All of them were accused on the basis of an audio recording of an illegally eavesdropped conversation in which they allegedly planned to break into the buildings of the National Assembly and Radio and Television of Serbia during the March 15 protest. The footage was broadcast in prime time on regime television on March 13.
Defense attorneys for the defendants have repeatedly argued that the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) eavesdropped on the conversation illegally and added that the audio recording cannot be legally valid evidence in the process.
Sources: FoNet/Beta/N1
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