{"id":4713,"date":"2019-03-31T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T10:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:41:07","slug":"protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 31, 2019<\/p>\n

\n

During the citizen protests dubbed \u201c1 of 5 million\u201d, which have been continuing for more than three and a half months, a section of protestors managed to breach building security and enter the Belgrade offices and studio of national public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia. Leaders of opposition parties, who also entered the building, demanded that RTS allow them to address citizens over the airwaves.<\/h2>\n

Police quickly ejected the demonstrators from RTS’s premises, with witnesses claiming that the police struck some of the protestors violently while removing them from the building, despite the protesters having acted peacefully.<\/p>\n

Responding to the event, Serbian President\u00a0Aleksandar Vu<\/a>\u010di\u0107<\/a>\u00a0said that he will not permit violence, while Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107 dubbed this form of protest an act of vandalism.<\/p>\n

Dragan \u0110ilas, a former Belgrade mayor who’s currently among the opposition leaders, said that entering the RTS building had not been planned, but that the RTS director must be held criminally responsible.<\/p>\n

Interior Minister Neboj\u0161a Stefanovi\u0107 insisted that the police reacted in a peaceful manner, while the Interior Ministry announced that several people had been arrested and detained, mainly school pupils and college<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 31, 2019 During the citizen protests dubbed \u201c1 of 5 million\u201d, which have been continuing for more than three and a half months, a section of protestors managed to breach building security and enter the Belgrade offices and studio of national public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia. Leaders of opposition parties, who also entered the building, demanded that RTS allow them to address citizens over the airwaves. Police quickly ejected the demonstrators from RTS’s premises, with witnesses claiming that the police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-en"],"yoast_head":"\nProtest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 31, 2019 During the citizen protests dubbed \u201c1 of 5 million\u201d, which have been continuing for more than three and a half months, a section of protestors managed to breach building security and enter the Belgrade offices and studio of national public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia. Leaders of opposition parties, who also entered the building, demanded that RTS allow them to address citizens over the airwaves. Police quickly ejected the demonstrators from RTS’s premises, with witnesses claiming that the police […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2016\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Vojin Mitrovic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@scfondacija\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@scfondacija\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Vojin Mitrovic\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741\"},\"headline\":\"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\",\"name\":\"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg\",\"width\":2016,\"height\":1512},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/\",\"name\":\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija\",\"description\":\"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija (S\u0106F) radi na promociji i unapre\u0111enju slobodnih, nezavisnih i odgovornih medija u Srbiji.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Slavko Curuvija Foundation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Slavko Curuvija Foundation\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/scfondacija\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/slavko_curuvija_fondacija\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/slavko-curuvija-foundation\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEDcWS1sfG6qvaiBvVJJVRQ\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741\",\"name\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Vojin Mitrovic\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/author\/vojin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building","og_description":"March 31, 2019 During the citizen protests dubbed \u201c1 of 5 million\u201d, which have been continuing for more than three and a half months, a section of protestors managed to breach building security and enter the Belgrade offices and studio of national public broadcaster Radio-Television Serbia. Leaders of opposition parties, who also entered the building, demanded that RTS allow them to address citizens over the airwaves. Police quickly ejected the demonstrators from RTS’s premises, with witnesses claiming that the police […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/","og_site_name":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/","article_published_time":"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2016,"height":1512,"url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Vojin Mitrovic","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@scfondacija","twitter_site":"@scfondacija","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Vojin Mitrovic","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/"},"author":{"name":"Vojin Mitrovic","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741"},"headline":"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building","datePublished":"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/"},"wordCount":199,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/","name":"Protest participants expelled by police after entering RTS building","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg","datePublished":"2019-03-31T10:37:31+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-09T10:41:07+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/protest-participants-expelled-by-police-after-entering-rts-building\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rts-protesti-aleksandar-milanovic-2.jpg","width":2016,"height":1512},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/","name":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija","description":"Slavko \u0106uruvija fondacija (S\u0106F) radi na promociji i unapre\u0111enju slobodnih, nezavisnih i odgovornih medija u Srbiji.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#organization","name":"Slavko Curuvija Foundation","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/SCF-Logo-900-600.jpg","width":900,"height":600,"caption":"Slavko Curuvija Foundation"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/slavkocuruvijafondacija\/","https:\/\/x.com\/scfondacija","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/slavko_curuvija_fondacija\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/slavko-curuvija-foundation\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEDcWS1sfG6qvaiBvVJJVRQ"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/d235fc303ee4385f0d60f7be176eb741","name":"Vojin Mitrovic","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ac7796564557f0f54e187b1b171f1796a9afbb07e218a2a28395548648bd49e1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Vojin Mitrovic"},"url":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/author\/vojin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slavkocuruvijafondacija.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}