The administration of the Faculty of Computer Science sent an email to the blocked students, threatening them with a ban on taking exams and temporary or permanent expulsion from the faculty if they do not give up. They were also given a deadline
The administration of the Faculty of Computer Science went one step further in breaking the protest students fighting against corruption in the country. Now they priest a ban on taking exams, but also a temporary or permanent expulsion from the faculty.
"Instead of dialogue - pressure, instead of understanding - blackmail. Deadlines, ultimatums and punishments," the students of this faculty wrote on Instagram and added that they remain in the fight for their rights.
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In the email, the students are asked to submit a signed list to the administration that they will not make teaching at the faculty more difficult, and it also says that they offer another chance to those who have not submitted their signatures.
"If the students in the blockade leave the illegally occupied premises, I will cancel the emergency decision, I will publicly thank them and invite them to talk," says the email signed by the president of the council of that faculty, Dragan Stojanović.
It is added that students can submit their signatures individually, if they do not do so as a group with Students in Blockade.
However, the urgent decision, which is mentioned in the email, means that those who do not agree to the conditions will be temporarily removed from the faculty, their student accounts and access to the faculty's services will be suspended. They were also given a deadline - April 25.
Those who do not agree to the conditions will allegedly be permanently expelled from the faculty on April 26.
Survey that it will not interfere
At the beginning of April, students blocking the Faculty of Computer Science in Belgrade called for a boycott of filling out a survey in which the same Dragan Stojanović demanded that the students undertake not to disrupt classes until the end of the school year.
Students condemned Stojanović's announcement, in which he called on lecturers and students to resign or withdraw from the faculty, if they disagree with his "urgent decisions".
The case of Milica Stojanović, who hit a student police officer with her car during the January protests, experienced a sudden turn in just a few months - from being accused of attempted murder to being released from custody and transferred to the basic court. The decisions of the prosecution and the court raised suspicions of political pressure and selective justice
The group of students who started the symbolic ultramarathon from Serbia to the EU on April 25 arrived in Brussels. MEP Irena Joveva said: "We saw where the president of Serbia was two days ago, and you can see where the students are now."
The Democratic Party and the Green-Left Front support the student request to hold extraordinary parliamentary elections, but warn that the conditions will not be a fairy tale.
"You can't live without Vučić. Because, as with similar regimes, the fall from power or the loss of office can mean prison if there is a trial for corruption or other criminal acts," political scientist Vedran Džihić told Frankfurter Rundschau.
The interlocutors of "Vremen" emphasize that the Ministry of Education is only interested in how to completely suppress any kind of rebellion with pressure and that the school year ends, and educators go on vacation, so that students lose an important ally
The knee-jerk Supreme Being trusts in the local elections in Kosjerić and Zaječar. It must not be forgotten that for 13 years he poured heavy poisons, especially in the province, and that detoxification is a long and painful process.
If the various opponents of Vučić's regime are unable to help the student youth, they could at least not retaliate. They have been working the same way and with the same disastrous results for too long to expect anyone to ask them anything
There are no more students ahead and us behind them. Now we are all in the same situation: we drove the beast out into the open. We know how it goes
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