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Citizens and students in several cities across Serbia have been organizing road and intersection blockades since last night, through peaceful protests and civil disobedience, demanding the release of their arrested colleagues and the announcement of early elections.
The roundabout at "Delta" in Niš is blocked.
Students and citizens have also gathered in front of the Faculty of Agriculture.
Traffic is stopped on Vojvode Stepe Street and Bulevar oslobođenja. Buses are stopped on Beogradska Street, a tram is stopped on Slavija Street, and Ruzveltova Street is also blocked.
Protesters are currently, as they say, outnumbering police forces and have overturned several containers on Pop Lukina Street, where several citizens are trapped.
Citizens in Zemun, at the intersection of Karađorđeva and Avijatičarski rg, shout "let everyone go".
Protesters have used garbage cans to block several roads, while there is police intervention on almost every road that is blocked. Rapid intervention forces are attempting to push citizens off the road onto the sidewalks in order to unblock traffic.
"Since the beginning of the Department's existence, we have taught our students that advocating for values such as social justice and solidarity is a prerequisite for the existence of a healthy and sustainable society, and freedom of thought and expression is an imperative that we should all strive for," the statement from the Department of Social Work of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad reads.
The Go - Change movement said today that "distributed blockades" are a tactic that the government can hardly suppress.
The scattered blockades are not a symbolic protest, they are the real power of the people. When major roads are blocked across Serbia, the corrupt system is stopped, says the Go - Change movement.
The Italian newspaper "Repubblica" reports that protests against the authoritarian rule and corruption of President Aleksandar Vučić's regime continue in Serbia and claims that "Moscow fears losing an ally."
Slavica Radovanović, MP from the "Solution for Serbia - Profession" movement, announced today that she will not participate in the proceedings of the Serbian Parliament until the repression against students stops and those responsible for the brutal use of force are sanctioned.
The head of the Belgrade committee of the Party for Freedom and Justice (SSP), Mila Popović, assessed today that for the Serbian Progressive Party, "the lives of young people are consumable goods", reacting to the statement of the head of the SNS parliamentary group, Milenko Jovanov, regarding the police who trampled citizens with police cars in Vojvode Stepe.
"Their power, their office, their interest, they are more valuable to them than human life," Mila Popović said in a statement.
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