Serbian Student Protesters Resume Their Mar.
The protests began after an attack on drama students on January 24 by pro-government thugs during a daily 15-minute commemoration for victims of a deadly overhang collapse in November that killed 15 people.
Student-led protesters continued on Friday their two-day march from the Serbian capital Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad after pausing in Inđija, where they spent the night in a football stadium. The demonstrators started their 80-kilometre march ...
They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer, or 50 mile, march toward the northern city of Novi Sad.
Hundreds of students set off on a protest march of some 90 kilometers from Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad on January 30. The demonstrations come amid months of anti-government protests following a deadly infrastructure collapse in Novi Sad in November 2024.
Hundreds of people, mainly students, set off from Belgrade on a two-day walk to Novi Sad in the latest of a wave of protests in Serbia. The protests started in November after the deadly collapse of a railway station roof,
If Serbian President Aleksander Vucic hoped the resignation of his hand-picked prime minister would get students to end nearly three months of anti-corruption protests, he didn't have to wait long for an answer.
Thousands of students blocked traffic at Autokomanda, one of Belgrade's busiest intersections, for 24 hours to protest the Serbian government's failure to prosecute those responsible for the collapse of a concrete canopy at the main railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad in November.
After spending a freezing night out in the open, hundreds of striking students on Friday resumed their 2-day anti-graft protest march from the capital, Belgrade, to the northern city of Novi Sad, where they plan to blockade three bridges over the River Danube this weekend.
Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko reiterated that protest rallies erupted after a tragic incident in the city of Novi Sad where the concrete canopy of the main railway station collapsed, killing 15 people a
In the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad, three months after a fatal disaster at the central railway station, sadness has turned to anger as student-led protests seek to hold the system to account.
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