Prosecutor's Office Says Will Appeal Release of Students from Detention

Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade (BETAPHOTO/Ana Slovic)

The students blockading the Belgrade Faculty of Law announced early on July 1 that their colleagues who had been accused of criminal offenses against the constitutional order had been released from custody.

Faculty of Law students stayed outside the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade during the night, waiting for a decision in the procedure against the students and citizens who had been suspected of "association for the purpose of committing criminal offenses," "preparing acts against the constitutional order and security of Serbia" and "calling for a violent change of the constitutional order."

The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade announced on July 1 that it would appeal the decisions whereby a preliminary proceedings judge of the Higher Court had rejected the proposal to place eight people suspected of preparing a violent change of the state order in detention.

The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office said the appeals would be filed with a proposal that the decisions be reversed and that all the suspects be placed in custody, bearing in mind the existence of specific circumstances indicating that they would repeat the criminal offense in a short period of time.