Thousands Brave Heavy Rain to Protest Serbia's Crackdown on Universities

Protests continue in Serbia by students and their supporters, who are now demanding early elections, convinced that the government will not meet their demands. Many professors have also joined them.

Thousands brave heavy rain to protest Serbia's crackdown on universities

Thousands of protesters have braved a rainstorm in Serbia’s capital to join a rally against a government crackdown on universities

Serbia: on the demand for new elections

The students leading the ongoing protests across Serbia recently announced that they are demanding early parliamentary elections, in which the students will propose their own list of candidates. All opposition media outlets loudly reported this statement, and the masses expressed their support out of trust in the students. Some activists have gone as far as to say that anyone who is in favour of bringing down the regime of Aleksandar Vučić will …

by Aida Kapetanović* For six months now, students in Serbia have been leading a movement that is rewriting its history. A mobilization that has involved thousands of citizens, different sectors of society, that has led to the resignation of the prime minister and that is putting the ten-year regime of Aleksandar Vučić to the test. Serbia, the largest student demonstrations since 1968 are putting Vučić's authoritarian government into crisis It a…

Several thousand people protested in front of the Serbian government building in Belgrade today against the government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić's crackdown on universities, the AP agency writes. The protesters demanded that the authorities revoke measures introduced against university professors and deans and cancel preparations for legislative changes that they say would deprive universities of their autonomy. Serbia has been regularl…

Professors have been left without salaries, their students are guarding the universities, and the government continues to ignore them. In Belgrade, we saw what the student blockade and anti-Maidan look like in practice.