The President of the National Assembly accused the participants of the RTS blockade of systematically harassing women employed in the public service, pointing out examples of female journalists who were exposed to pressure. She announced that she expected a reaction from the institutions for violating the law
Support for students in front of RTS takes on a new dimension - citizens bring food, instruments and good will. The streets are closed to traffic, but open for solidarity and togetherness, which has been going on for the sixth day
Out of a total of 3.000 medical students in Niš, only 153 of them reported attending online classes during the blockade, according to the protesting students. They say that the data is discouraging for the faculty administration and that they are determined to persevere in the fight to replace the leadership.
Six students and activists are languishing in prison, a warrant has been issued for six of them for an alleged attack on the constitutional order. The students in the blockade demand the immediate release of all political prisoners and that the states stop unjustified repressive measures
The resignations of all editors and journalists who "allowed Dnevnik 2 and other news programs to present untruths and insults against students and other citizens" are demanded.
Without fanfare or uniform, war veterans became informal security for student protests. Now they are with the students in front of the blocked RTS buildings. The "Vremena" reporter spent the night with them in Takovska
The fifth day of the blockade of the Radio and Television of Serbia buildings in Takovska Street in Belgrade and in Košutnjak is underway. The public service was forced to change the program scheme, and as they state, they are working in the most difficult conditions so far. A criminal complaint was also filed against the students blocking RTS buildings
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, announced changes in the funding of faculties and more money to private higher education institutions in order to break the monopoly of state faculties. Professors of some private colleges see it as a rift in the academic community
The pressure on colleges and universities has reached a new level - hearings have begun. Jelena Jerinić, deputy of the Green-Left Front and university professor, tells "Vreme" that the hearing of rector Vladan Đokić is another pressure on the university and perhaps a prelude to hearing the dean
"They forbid their freedom of movement, even to eat, to broadcast their program, whatever I think about that program, it is terrible and the messages that are sent to the people who work at RTS are terrible," said Vučić
"I call on the students to an even stronger blockade, and the citizens to strongly support the students in the war. We are a country on which the regime has declared war. In war, there is no Good Friday, no Easter, no holidays, no birthdays," Democratic Party President Srđan Milivojević told Vreme, regarding his statement that Vučić ordered the immediate breaking of the blockades.
Since, at the end of last year, students have blocked the faculties of all state universities, representatives of the authorities have repeatedly emphasized the negative consequences of protests for the economy.
On April 25, 16 student-runners are starting the Brussels route in order to deliver letters to the members of the European Parliament and show that no obstacle can stand in the way of a more just society in which they live
In the latest episode of the tabloid saga "here's proof that the students were paid", the alleged correspondence of the blocked students is published. The only problem is that students don't talk like that - unless maybe they arrived in a time machine from 1994
Aleksandar Vučić announced arrests, criminal and misdemeanor charges against blockaders, prosecutors and anyone who stands in his way. During this time, the blockades are only gaining momentum
The government already dealt with the university in 1992 and 1998 based on the so-called Milošćević's, and then Šešel's University Law. The second attack was more devastating, it shone a light on the anti-intellectualism of the Serbian Radical Party. In it, Aleksandar Vučić stood out, who even now prepares the destruction of the rebellious academic community
After Novi Pazar, it was the turn of Kraljevo, where a sixteen-hour student protest was held on April 16 for the same number of victims who died in the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad.
"On March 15, everything was prepared for the final launch of the colored revolution," said Vučić. And the Russian FSB categorically concluded that there was no use of any sonic weapons
After the student cyclists reached Strasbourg, their colleagues decided to race to Brussels on foot. In racing gear, sixteen of them will embark on a sixteen-day relay ultramarathon across Europe
In front of the building of the Radio-television of Serbia, the police forcefully opened a passage through the student blockade to allow the employees to enter, while the gathered people chanted "Lower the shields". After the intervention, the police withdrew, and students and citizens continued to block RTS
The citizens are protesting because they want to recall the event on March 15 and to demand an answer from the authorities about what happened that evening. At the protest in front of RTS, a petition was signed by educators and citizens asking the Ministry to suspend disciplinary procedures at the "Vožd Karađorđe" Elementary School in Belgrade, the "Svetozar Miletić" Gymnasium and Vocational School in Srbobran, and the "Stevan Mokranjac" Secondary School in Požarevac.
Canadian actor Rob Stewart, whom Serbia adored in the 1990s in the role of Nick Slaughter in the series Tropical Heat, supported the students in the blockade and told them that they can be the spark of democracy in the whole world.
Just as it suppressed the teachers' rebellion, and broke the university professors' salaries by deducting their salaries, the government began to seriously threaten students in the blockade with financial measures.
On Monday evening, students blocked the Radio-television Vojvodina building in Novi Sad. The gendarmerie chased them away around five in the morning. The MUP announces criminal and misdemeanor charges
Students on their way to Strasbourg are met by student cyclists from the Netherlands
A large twelve-hour meeting was held in Novi Pazar. On Saturday morning, students blocked the intersection at the entrance to Novi Pazar to prevent the buses of the Serbian Progressive Party from heading to Belgrade for the "We don't give Serbia" rally, but the police rudely intervened, throwing and trampling them.
The fact that Dean Aleksandar Mitić called the police to intervene against the students is "an act of betrayal of the academic community and the values that should define it", the students assessed
