Court blockages as support for six activists in custody: In Novi Sad, pepper spray was used, in Nis, the war veteran – BBC News in Serbian

While six-time activists are more than two months in custody under the accusation of collection of constitutional order, citizens and students block courts in several cities in Serbia in solidarity.

The gathered are looking for the release of six activists whose court in Novi Sad 13. May extended detention for another 30 days.

In Novi Sad, the second largest city in Serbia, gathered early in the morning, blocked the building of the Court and the Prosecution, about which metal fences were placed, with the presence of severe police forces.

At one point, citizens and police were pushed in the last entrance, which tried to allow employees to enter the building.

Help then provided the gendarmery that intervened using pepper spray.

« Let them all, » they shouted together as tensions calmed down, reported by the BBC Reporer Svetlana Paramentić.

Nis students blocked the building of the Basic Court last night in the third largest city in Serbia that the police interrupted this morning.

Students then headed to the police building in Nis to support the war veteran previously detained, Transfers N1.

The locks of the courts were also announced in Belgrade and Kragujevac.

Activists of the movement of free citizens and informal student organizations, Davor Stefanović, Mladen Cvijetić, Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović and Srdjan Đurić were arrested 14. Marta, the day before the Great Protest in Belgrade.

They were arrested, as it was broadcast on several channels with the national coverage of their conversation in the premises of the movement of free citizens in Novi Sad.

The recording is heard that in the meeting, among other things, were discussed at the Protest 15. March in Belgrade, the idea of ​​the transitional government, as well as in the intrusion into the Radio and Television of Serbia.

Activists are suspected of preparing part against the constitutional regulation and security of the Republic of Serbia, in connection with the criminal attack on constitutional order and criminal offense Calling for violent change in constitutional order.

They are more than two months in prison at Klisa, Novi Sad settlement, whose conditions they complained from the movement of free citizens.

Since detention, activist and professor of sociology Marija Vasić, began on hunger and thirst, refusing therapy and infusion and demanding release from « illegal detention ».

« I will protest my life against it, because mercy, I don’t seek or give you », she said She.

The Senior Court in Novi Sad is 13. May, made a decision to extend detention for six days, after submitting the indictment to the Novi Session of the Senior Public Prosecutor’s Office.

In the reasoning of this decision, it says that the activists are « suspected of crimes in relation to current protests of students and citizens », there is a fearful to « defendant if they could repeat the criminal offense in the short period of time.

« You extend detention on this basis is necessary and justified, and in order to ensure smooth conduct of this criminal procedure, » it says in announcement Of the High Court in Novi Sad.

The day before is the public prosecutor’s office in Novi Sad submitted an accused proposal Against twelve defendants for criminal offenses preparation against the constitutional regulation and safety of Serbia in a convocation of the criminal attack on constitutional regulation and invitation to a violent change in constitutional order.

The Prosecution also requested that the trial in absentia was determined for other six defendants located outside the country.

What happens in Nis?

Students in Nis have blocked the Basic Court building last night, demanding the release of activists from Novi Sad, who have been in custody for two months.

The Police and Gendarmerie detachment came at 6.30 am in front of the Court in Nis and as they made a « hoop » around the entrance, the judges who did not want to be shot and pushed the shields, reported by the Beta correspondent.

The war military veteran caught the shield of a police officer who pushed it and was immediately arrested.

The participants of the protest are most likely to protest in front of the Police Administration in Nis until the war veterans are released.

Military veterans called on the Chief of the Nis police administration to address them and says what happens to the arrested colleague.

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