In Serbia, the High Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has charged citizens who participated in protests against the results of parliamentary and local elections with the crime of violently changing the constitutional order. This is reported by Balkan Insight.
According to the prosecutor's office, these crimes include violent behavior during public events. The punishment for such actions can be from six months to five years of imprisonment.
The Serbian Prosecutor's Office reported that seven people pleaded guilty and entered into a plea agreement. For these agreements, they are threatened with suspended imprisonment for 6 months and fines.
Along with that, the prosecutor's office offers additional detention for 11 suspects in order to prevent the repetition of the offense within a short period of time.
Among those detained were opposition activists, which angered the leader of the opposition coalition "Serbia against violence" Myroslav Aleksych. He called the accusations "absolutely false".
Representatives of the defense of the accused believe that this case resembles an investigation of a political party, and not an objective investigation by the prosecutor's office.
The report did not specify the specific circumstances that led to the charges, and did not provide further details about the protests or the specific individuals targeted.
