The EU's Fence-Sitting as Serbia's Vučić Steps up Violent State Repression
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The EU's fence-sitting as Serbia's Vučić steps up violent state repression
The EU choosing “stability” in the current moment means de facto endorsement of violent repression in Serbia. The EU’s timid messaging has in fact encouraged Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić to step up his repression. He unleashed violent thugs on the protesters and launched a relentless media campaign denouncing the students as “terrorists” paid by Serbia’s enemies.
Alumni of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts demanded an immediate end to all forms of repression against students and employees of that higher education institution.
A truck driver from Novi Sad, Milomir Jaćimović, was also detained, after he threatened to harm himself in front of the premises of SNS in Novi Sad. President of Serbia Mr
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is facing the biggest protests of his time in office. Blockades of streets and intersections have spread to cities across Serbia after a mass demonstration in late June, and arrests of protesters have continued. The European Union has called for a crackdown on violence, and criticism of the regime is now coming from Moscow, with Kremlin-aligned philosopher Alexander Dugin saying that Vučić has lost legitimacy a…
Novica Antić, a lawyer and former president of the Serbian Military Union, has been in custody for 12 days, along with six other activists who were arrested on June 25. They are charged with the criminal offenses of calling for a violent change in the constitutional order and preparing an act of unconstitutional organization of the Republic of Serbia. All the defendants have reportedly denied the charges, and Novica Antić has begun a hunger stri…
After a turbulent Monday in Užice, protests continue in this city with a rally in front of the court, where previously detained protesters are being questioned.
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