Belgrade, January 30, 2025<\/p>\n
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Two more female students were seriously injured in the previous period. This indicates a worrying trend of increasing extreme violence to which women engaged in activism are exposed. A student was hit by a car during the blockade on the day of the General Strike. The student hit her head on the curb and suffered serious injuries. On the day when the president of the state spoke declaratively about the necessity of dialogue, thugs, who came from the premises of SNS in Novi Sad, attacked two groups of students and on that occasion beat one young woman with baseball bats and injured her.<\/p>\n
The struggle of students, high schoolers and their professors, is the struggle of all of us. It is a fight against a corrupt system, a fight for the rule of law and the independence of institutions.<\/p>\n
In the observed period, 13 foreign citizens who participated in workshops organized by the Erste Stiftung were expelled from Serbia. Their expulsion is a continuation of the pressure exerted by the security services on domestic, regional and foreign activists and should also be seen in the context of the government’s attempt to present legitimate student protests as an attempt of foreign factors to interfere in internal affairs.<\/p>\n