Journalist Nenad Živković was detained today in Pančevo, Serbia, while paying tribute to those killed in the collapse of the Novi Sad Railway Station canopy because he refused to show police his ID.
Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs took him to a car where he spent half an hour, and citizens stood in front of the vehicle and did not allow him to head to the police station.
Živković told reporters that he refused to act on the order because there was a sixteen-minute silence at that moment.
"Practising my right to peaceful assembly and protest, I refused to give the police officer my ID card. Especially since it happened during a tribute to the victims at the train station. The police said they would take me to the station to establish my identity, so I was detained," Živković told reporters.
After a little over half an hour, he showed the police officers his ID card and was then released.
"I want to send a message to citizens not to give their ID cards to have reports written against them, because there is no need. We have the right to assemble by law, and I am telling the police that they no longer have any authority and that we are not afraid of them," said Živković, who is also the editor of the Pančevo SiTi portal.
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