Students on the blockade announced on Thursday evening that they would also celebrate Easter in front of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade because "the fight for truth must not stop - not even for the holidays."
Belgrade and Novi Sad students blocked the buildings of RTS and Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) in a coordinated action on Monday evening, claiming that public media services were not reporting objectively on their protests.
The Novi Sad police and Gendarmerie have meanwhile lifted the blockade of RTV, while the blockade of RTS has continued.
The blockade will last, they say, until a new competition for members of the Council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) is announced, or until RTS is shut down.
In front of the RTS building in Belgrade, students and citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the work of the public service broadcaster last night with the sounds of whistles and vavuzelas, according to the Beta agency.
Last night, students invited citizens to join them on Sunday, Easter, in front of the RTS building:
"Bring holiday decorations, create activities for the kids, your painted eggs, and bring joy and love," reads a post from the Students in Blockade profile on the X network.
RTS adjusts its programming schedule during the lockdown.
The editorial board of the Public Service Broadcasting Company has repeatedly called for an end to the blockade.
RTS announced on Thursday that photos of its editors and journalists, in which they are presented as "enemies of the people", are being shared on social networks and posted in public spaces.
They accused the students in the blockade of directly endangering the safety and lives of their employees by "spreading arrest warrants," whose photos, they point out, were published in a "context that calls for lynching."
Incidentally, this is not the first blockade of public media services.
On the evening of March 10, students from Belgrade and Novi Sad gathered unannounced in front of public media services and blocked all entrances, demanding objective reporting on the protests.
Their blockade lasted about 20 hours.
Students in the blockade have been protesting for months, demanding accountability for the collapse of the concrete canopy of the Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1, which killed 16 people.
The president of the Democratic Party (DS) and MP Srđan Milivojević stated today that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić ordered special police forces to use force against students and unblock the approaches to Radio Television of Serbia on Takovska Street and Košutnjak on the night between Thursday and Friday.
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