Eight protesters who sat on the street in February 2014 were legally acquitted of charges for disobeying a police order to move away.
Marko Milačić, Boban Batrićević, Ninoslav Kaluđerović, Irena Delja, Danilo Mrvaljević, Miro and Milka Radević and Aljoša Turović were arrested then while peacefully protesting the bad situation in the country.
The courts concluded that the defendants did not use violence, nor did they destroy property, and that there was no reason for the police to react.
High Court judges Boris Savić, Evica Durutović and Miljana Pavlićević confirmed the decision of Basic Court judge Goran Đuković that the demonstrators protested in accordance with Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which had primacy over domestic legislation in this case.
Article 11 of the ECHR allows, among other things, people to gather, express, discuss and protect their common interests...
Judge Đuković acquitted them twice, and the High Court had earlier revoked the verdict, stating that the first-instance court did not sufficiently explain its decision.
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