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Sanja Zrnić

Graduated journalist and communication specialist. She has been writing for "Vreme" since 2012, and has also worked for "Večernji novosti". She trained in media communications, public relations and human rights.

Education

Educators' strikes: The noise that the government ignores

Schools across Serbia are still on strike. In some places, classes are shortened because of low salaries, in others they "give out high fives" because teachers are afraid of students and their parents. In a deeply divided society, even the educational unions failed to unite. Separate actions do not bring any results. Why teachers do not dare to stop work completely

Dating apps

Dinner with full pages

A jump from the monitor to real life. The uncomfortable, slightly terrifying, exhilarating and liberating experience of having dinner with five complete strangers that the app connected me to

Protests in Serbia

Civil resistance: The persistent and aimless pursuit of justice

For more than a decade, the inhabitants of Serbia have been looking for answers to the numerous tragedies that society is going through on the streets, due to the silence of the authorities and institutions. This search, it sometimes seems, is hopeless, and the interlocutors of "Vremen" say, because it is without a clear goal

"Free those arrested in Novi Sad"

Baucal: We are fighting for a more normal society

One of the signatories of the open letter from the professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, Professor Aleksandar Baucal, tells "Vreme" that they are considering whether there will be stronger statements

Caring for the elderly

Illegal homes for the elderly are life-threatening

Dozens of illegal facilities for the care of the elderly and infirm throughout Serbia have been reported to the authorities, but some are still operating without a permit. In one of them, two women were killed in a fire on Sunday, and the president of the Association of Private Social Protection Institutions, Radoslav Milovanović, told "Vreme" that he fears that such events will happen again.

Air traffic

Niš Airport: Less and less passengers, more and more goods

"Konstantin the Great" airport had fewer passengers in October compared to the previous five months, while from January to the end of October 2024 there were about 76.000 fewer passengers compared to the same period last year. At the same time, cargo transportation recorded growth

Tourism

Utah is about to shut down due to debt

The National Association of Utah Travel Agencies could be shut down after 70 years due to blocked accounts and a debt of about 16 million dinars. Director of Juta, Aleksandar Seničić, tells "Vreme" that the help of the state, but also the political will, is necessary for the survival of such an association.

Urbanism

Concreting of Belgrade

For the third year in a row, construction is being carried out in the capital of Serbia without the adopted General Urban Plan, according to which it should be built and developed until 2041. That is why there are almost no larger municipalities in Belgrade where citizens have not stood in front of the machines

Education

Teachers' protest: A strike and a total work stoppage follow

Four representative unions of educators have announced that they will suspend work on November 1, and then begin a "series of strikes" in all schools in Serbia. The members of the Independent Union of Education Workers of Serbia continue with the "white strike" and only give high fives. The Government's response is still is waiting

After Stojaković announced on his Instagram account on Thursday that the BIA had invited him for an informative interview at the police station, independent MP Slavica Radovanović accused the government of violating the Constitution, laws and all other documents related to the rights and protection of citizens by abusing the BIA .

"The invitation to students or any citizen of Serbia to have a 'friendly conversation' is not formally or legally regulated, that is, it does not exist," emphasized Slavica Radovanović in a written statement.

She also pointed out that the Law on Criminal Procedure provides for an interview with a citizen only for the purpose of gathering the necessary information, and only by written invitation, with an indication of the reason, place and time of the interview and the mandatory preparation of an official note on the content of the interview with the objections of the person with whom it is conducted. conversation and to whom a copy of such note must be given.

"This kind of arbitrariness, arrogance and abuse of power speaks of only one thing, and that is that everyone who thinks differently and represents a danger to the lifelong rule of the Serbian Progressive Party should be sheltered, blackmailed, destroyed and crushed," stated Radovanović.

According to her, all these actions are carried out under the baton of exclusively unprofessional and incompetent party cadres, ready for any illegal act, just to stay in power and to please the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, because "he keeps them in power, in his fist, masters and governs their lives, to which they all consent knowingly and with interest".

The role of prosecutors and investigating judges

The security and information agency can eavesdrop and organize secret monitoring, but under different conditions and according to a different procedure than the monitoring and eavesdropping that is carried out in criminal proceedings.

Slavica Radovanović emphasized that the application of special measures from the Law on BIA requires an explained proposal of the director of the agency and the approval of the president of the High Court in Belgrade.

"Since in Serbia, with the coming to power of the SNS, few things function as provided for by law, that's why a logical question arises, and that is what is the actual role of the prosecutors who, together with the judge for the preliminary proceedings - the former investigative judge - should convince the court that under specific conditions, in addition to classic pre-investigative actions, secret surveillance of communications is also necessary," said Slavica Radovanović.

Reported due to spyware

International organization Amnesty International and research by BIRN showed that the BIA also inserted spyware into the phones of journalists and activists. Representatives of civil society therefore submitted criminal charges against unknown persons in the BIA and the police.

Research by BIRN and Amnesty International's forensic analysis showed that the BIA, using the Israeli Cellebrite technology, unlocked the phones of the activists it called or brought in for interviews, and then inserted the domestic spy program NoviSpy into those devices.

They didn't just stop at collecting messages and contacts - they went into private photos, followed families, turned on cameras and microphones.

The representative of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCBP), Dušan Pokuševski, specified that the criminal complaint against "NN persons" was submitted to the BIA and the police due to suspicion of three criminal acts, namely the unauthorized collection of personal data, the creation and introduction of computer viruses and unauthorized access to protected computer, computer network and electronic data processing.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs denied such allegations.

Source: FoNet/Beta

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After announcing that he was invited to a "friendly" meeting with the Security and Information Agency (BIA), Lazar Stojaković, a student at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, told the Beta agency that students want to live in a normal Serbia, "where everyone is equal before the law and where competent institutions do their work responsibly".
Stojaković stated that students are not afraid of Cobra's intervention, which was mentioned by President Vučić as a possibility to break up the protest. "I believe that every honorable member of the Cobras is revolted by the president's statement. No soldier wants to attack the people and 'scatter' them. I am sure that most of them share our values, while a few commanders are under the influence of the authorities," he said. Commenting on the invitation of the Security Information Agency (BIA) to "a friendly conversation," Stojakovic said that he did not hope for that. "This is a classic example of competent institutions performing work for which they are not competent. We, the students, are fighting for justice and law, while the BIA should deal with those who violate the constitutional order, and not put pressure on citizens who are fighting for a better society," he pointed out. When asked if there is something in the people as well changed since the students started the protests, Stojaković said that he felt it at Slavija "incredible energy". "The people are waking up. At Slavia, we saw how much the people are with us. I think that our persistence and resourcefulness, as we responded to the attacks of those who tried to suppress the blockades, gave them hope for a better future. This system has been stifling every glimmer of hope in people for decades. Now the system doesn't know how to react," he pointed out. Is friendly chat legal?

"I want to inform you that I have been invited to an informative interview with the secret service of the BIA at the premises of the MUP in New Belgrade. I experience this as a kind of pressure and I hope that the state will respond to the requests of my colleagues and me through the institutions we address, and not through the secret service, which has a different role in the state," wrote Stojaković.

 
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After Stojaković announced on his Instagram account on Thursday that the BIA had invited him for an informative interview at the police station, independent MP Slavica Radovanović accused the government of violating the Constitution, laws and all other documents related to the rights and protection of citizens by abusing the BIA .

"The invitation to students or any citizen of Serbia to have a 'friendly conversation' is not formally or legally regulated, that is, it does not exist," emphasized Slavica Radovanović in a written statement.

She also pointed out that the Law on Criminal Procedure provides for an interview with a citizen only for the purpose of gathering the necessary information, and only by written invitation, with an indication of the reason, place and time of the interview and the mandatory preparation of an official note on the content of the interview with the objections of the person with whom it is conducted. conversation and to whom a copy of such note must be given.

"This kind of arbitrariness, arrogance and abuse of power speaks of only one thing, and that is that everyone who thinks differently and represents a danger to the lifelong rule of the Serbian Progressive Party should be sheltered, blackmailed, destroyed and crushed," stated Radovanović.

According to her, all these actions are carried out under the baton of exclusively unprofessional and incompetent party cadres, ready for any illegal act, just to stay in power and to please the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, because "he keeps them in power, in his fist, masters and governs their lives, to which they all consent knowingly and with interest".

The role of prosecutors and investigating judges

The security and information agency can eavesdrop and organize secret monitoring, but under different conditions and according to a different procedure than the monitoring and eavesdropping that is carried out in criminal proceedings.

Slavica Radovanović emphasized that the application of special measures from the Law on BIA requires an explained proposal of the director of the agency and the approval of the president of the High Court in Belgrade.

"Since in Serbia, with the coming to power of the SNS, few things function as provided for by law, that's why a logical question arises, and that is what is the actual role of the prosecutors who, together with the judge for the preliminary proceedings - the former investigative judge - should convince the court that under specific conditions, in addition to classic pre-investigative actions, secret surveillance of communications is also necessary," said Slavica Radovanović.

Reported due to spyware

International organization Amnesty International and research by BIRN showed that the BIA also inserted spyware into the phones of journalists and activists. Representatives of civil society therefore submitted criminal charges against unknown persons in the BIA and the police.

Research by BIRN and Amnesty International's forensic analysis showed that the BIA, using the Israeli Cellebrite technology, unlocked the phones of the activists it called or brought in for interviews, and then inserted the domestic spy program NoviSpy into those devices.

They didn't just stop at collecting messages and contacts - they went into private photos, followed families, turned on cameras and microphones.

The representative of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights (BCBP), Dušan Pokuševski, specified that the criminal complaint against "NN persons" was submitted to the BIA and the police due to suspicion of three criminal acts, namely the unauthorized collection of personal data, the creation and introduction of computer viruses and unauthorized access to protected computer, computer network and electronic data processing.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs denied such allegations.

Source: FoNet/Beta

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