(7 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade, Serbia – 6 September 2025
1. Various of protesters marching, carrying banner reading (Serbian): "For the family”
2. Pride and Serbian flags during march
3. Various of protesters marching
4. Man getting face decorated with glitter
5. Various of police on streets
STORYLINE:
A Pride march in Serbia on Saturday condemned police violence against anti-government protesters and offered support to university students behind the months-long demonstrations against populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
Participants instead held a commemorative silence that has marked the past 10 months of persistent student-led demonstrations challenging Vucic.
Organizers said the event was envisaged as a protest, without festival-style features as police secured the Belgrade pride march that has been a high-risk event for years, sometimes marred with violent attacks from right-wing extremists.
Members of Serbia’s embattled LGBTQ+ community routinely face harassment in the highly conservative country.
Serbia is formally seeking European Union membership but has done little to boost LGBTQ+ rights, including legalizing same-sex partnerships.
The protests started in November when a concrete canopy collapsed at a train station in Serbia’s north, killing 16 people.
The disaster ignited a wave of anti-corruption demonstrations alleging graft-fuelled negligence as its cause.
Increasingly, authoritarian Vucic has rejected a student demand for a snap parliamentary election.
He has stepped up a crackdown against the protesters, sacking scores of professors and teachers and deploying police inside some faculty buildings.
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