US EditionDacic: Protest Participants in Užice Arrested for Attacking the Police, Not for Protesting
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In the past few days, the epicenter of protest activity has moved from the wider Belgrade area to Užice — after clashes between protesters and police in the evening hours of July 6, announced rallies in other cities were canceled, writes Social Udar.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said today that it is not the job of the police to solve political issues, claiming that the police have an order to react only if someone attacks them, and that protest participants in Uzice were arrested for breaking the cordon and attacking police officers.
At the protest "Everyone on the streets, everyone like Užice", a multitude of citizens of Užice and other cities in Serbia, on Wednesday evening, demanded the release of the participants in the blockade.
After the blockade of the main road on Monday, seven participants in the blockade in Užice were arrested. Although the citizens of Užice blocked the main road again the day after,
OGP GLAS SERBIJE strongly opposes the Kabadahian use of force and abuse of law against the arrested activists in Užice, as stated in the statement of the organization, which we are publishing: The targeted arrests of prominent, brave and honest fighters for a democratic, orderly and functional institutional Serbia, such as first and foremost the lawyer and leader of Užice Action Radovan Novaković, but also others such as Professor Nikolić, stude…
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