According to the announcements of the students in the blockade, the blockade of the buildings of the Radio and Television of Serbia will last until a new competition for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) is announced or until "RTS is shut down".
Students in the blockade and the citizens who support them continued to block the buildings Radio and Television of Serbia in Takovska street and on Kosutnjak.
The blockade of the buildings of Radio and Television of Serbia has entered its eighth day, and as announced, it will last until a new competition for members of the Council of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) is announced, or until "RTS is shut down."
RTS was forced to adjust the program schedule due to the difficult working conditions caused by the blockade, a criminal complaint was filed with the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against an unknown person and the response of international institutions was requested.
RTS even apologized to the faithful, because due to the blockade it is unable to broadcast the traditional liturgies of the cross from the Church of Saint Sava, as well as the Catholic mass from the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, condemned the "violence that the blockaders are undertaking against RTS journalists and editors" and said that Serbia "will have the strength to protect the constitutional order".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia expressed deep concern over the several-day blockade of RTS, considering it a "serious attack on media freedom and the right to information", which is why it called on international organizations and institutions to support media freedom in Serbia and to condemn all forms of pressure and blockade.
Ministers Ivica Dačić, Marko Đurić and Nenad Vujić, after a meeting with representatives of the Quinte countries, said that the illegal blockade of RTS represents "a direct attack on media freedom, the safety of journalists and the basic postulates of the rule of law", and that such actions "grossly violate not only domestic regulations but also international conventions".
European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos announced that she is carefully monitoring the situation in Serbia, including the blockade of RTS, and calls on everyone to refrain from deepening tensions.
Students blocking the public service building have been blocking since April 14 at 22 p.m.
After the President of Serbia publicly questioned the legality of Rector Vladan Đokić's participation in the student electoral list, the Rector replied that as a citizen and professor he was guaranteed the right to be elected. He argues that political engagement does not conflict with academic integrity, as long as it takes place outside university institutions
President Aleksandar Vučić's statement that the SNS will block the courts in Novi Sad raises serious questions about the attitude of the executive power towards the independence of the judiciary. While the courts are being accused of "injustice" and "color revolution", the president is sending a message that looks less and less like an institutional dialogue and more and more like an open confrontation with all those who are not loyal to him
The Court of Appeal in Novi Sad partially accepted the appeal of the defenders of the arrested activists and ordered house arrest with electronic monitoring for Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović and Lazar Dinić. They are prohibited from using the phone, the Internet and contacts with other people, and the measure will last until August 20.
After more than a month, the Russian Federal Security Service answered the question of "Vremena" about whether they investigated the events in Serbia on March 15 at 19:11 in the center of Belgrade
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Extraordinary session of the High Prosecution Council
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