Latest: Friday 30 October 2026

Arrest warrant for Aleksandar Radić over the "sound cannon"

  • Arrest warrant for Aleksandar Radić over the "sound cannon": The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade said it was establishing how military analyst Aleksandar Radić, who is subject to an arrest warrant, came to give a statement broadcast on RTS's Dnevnik 2, and that it would order the police to find out who had been in contact with him.

Police violence in Valjevo

  • Police violence in Valjevo: The Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime confirmed that seven more people beaten at the protest in Valjevo in August 2025 have filed criminal complaints, the last on 5 October. The prosecutors have interviewed 33 injured parties and questioned eight witnesses, and the pre-investigation proceedings are ongoing.

EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement

  • EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement: Student List candidate and Faculty of Civil Engineering professor Vladan Kuzmanović said EXPO would go ahead, but that the new government would review what the project includes, terminate corrupt and overpriced contracts and suspend the special laws.

Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School

  • Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School: The Novi Sad Basic Court rejected the request to remand Radivoje P. Stojković, principal of the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School, in custody, and instead barred him from entering the school and from approaching witnesses, among them four teachers, according to the court's reply to the news portal 021.rs.
  • Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School: Students at Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School in Novi Sad gave a ceremonial welcome to teachers Marija Vasić, Rima Grujić, Dragan Vulić and Jovan Travica, whom the principal had kept out of the classroom despite court rulings, while he awaited the court's decision on detention.
  • Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School: The Bačka Palanka Basic Public Prosecutor's Office has requested custody for Radivoje Stojković, principal of the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School in Novi Sad, who is suspected of four criminal counts of failing to carry out a court decision, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.
  • Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School: The headmaster of the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School in Novi Sad, who is in custody, was brought for questioning to the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Bačka Palanka after the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad decided to transfer jurisdiction to that office, according to Danas, Nova and N1.

The Banjska attack and Radoičić's lack of an indictment in Serbia

  • The Banjska attack and Radoičić's lack of an indictment in Serbia: According to the Nova.rs portal, a commission of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office is examining why Milan Radoičić, who claimed responsibility for the 2023 Banjska attack, was not remanded in custody after questioning; at the time, the prosecution sought detention only on the grounds of flight risk.

Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away

  • Pressure on prosecutors and judges, and cases taken away: The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office commission is also examining why businessman Milan Radoičić, suspected of organising the 2023 armed clash in Banjska, was not remanded in custody after questioning, according to the Nova.rs portal.

Irregularities in the 2026 elections

  • Irregularities in the 2026 elections: The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš opened a case on a complaint from a citizen who said that on election day, in a school yard in Pukovac near Doljevac, he and four friends were told they would be „swallowed by the dark“. It asked police to establish who had threatened them.
  • Irregularities in the 2026 elections: Vienna police told KRIK they had submitted a report to the Vienna prosecutor's office on the Association of Serbs in Austria, which registered voters for the Serbian elections, and on a man stopped outside the Serbian consulate on election day with a list suspected of being a duplicate voter list.

Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order

  • Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order: The Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office has asked the Ministry of Justice to urgently hand over the documentation and the decisions pardoning 49 persons, as announced before his resignation by then-President Aleksandar Vučić. They include 12 Novi Sad activists. The ministry had earlier said it had no official rulings.

SNS bots and who organises them

  • SNS bots and who organises them: Anonymous workers at the Nikola Tesla power plant said Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) planned to hire 50 workers from the company PRO TENT on 3 November, and asked the general manager to stop the hiring; EPS says it has not organised any unlawful hiring.

Destruction of official records after the elections

  • Destruction of official records after the elections: Officers from the Criminal Police Directorate, acting on an order from the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, entered the Ministry of Construction and the PIO Fund to check claims that official documents were being destroyed; the ministry confirmed the visit.
  • Destruction of official records after the elections: The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica said it had identified the person who carried six bags of documents out of the Subotica General Hospital. He handed the bags over to the police, and his flat was searched under a court order. This followed reports that files were being removed from institutions after the elections.
  • Destruction of official records after the elections: The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica said that, according to camera footage, an officer of the Security Information Agency (BIA) carried a half-full bag out of the police building on a regular waste collection day. This followed a report by Danas that documents were being destroyed at BIA's premises.
  • Destruction of official records after the elections: Students at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad published photographs of documents that they say Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff prevented from being destroyed; the group "Diplomats Won't Stay Silent" says an attempt to destroy financial records at the ministry was prevented.
  • Destruction of official records after the elections: The citizens' association "Znanjem za Čačak" filed a criminal complaint with the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Čačak on suspicion that the financial records of the City Finance Administration were at risk of being destroyed or removed, following reports of records being shredded in institutions after the elections.

The Savamala case: demolition in Hercegovačka Street

  • The Savamala case: demolition in Hercegovačka Street: The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade denied that the arrest of former Communal Police chief Nikola Ristić was linked to his interview about the 2016 Savamala demolition, but did not say whether it had checked the claims he made in it.

Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets

  • Telekom's purchase of Kopernikus and media outlets: The Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime confirmed that several criminal complaints have been filed against four people from Telekom Srbija, United Group, Alpac Capital and Adria News Network. The complainant claims they acted in concert to weaken United Media outlets, above all N1, Nova, Danas and Radar.

The Danka Ilić case and the police's handling of it

  • The Danka Ilić case and the police's handling of it: A preparatory hearing, closed to the public, was held before the Higher Court in Negotin for both defendants charged with the girl's murder; the court's president said the first trial session, open to the public, would be scheduled immediately afterwards.

Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business

  • Davor Macura's Alta Bank and state business: The Organised Crime Prosecutor's Office has asked the police Service for Combating Organised Crime to look into Alta Bank's business and the responsible persons at the National Bank of Serbia, over possible outflows of money from the bank's accounts to other countries.

REM, RTS and state money for the media

  • REM, RTS and state money for the media: The Journalists' Association of Serbia filed a complaint with the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance because the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, even after the legal deadline, had not told it which 14 local governments it had brought misdemeanour proceedings against over delays in their media funding calls.
  • REM, RTS and state money for the media: Goran Karadžić, general director of Radio-Television of Vojvodina, resigned (“It is right that I go too”) after the resignations of the public broadcaster’s editor-in-chief of the First Television Channel, the acting editor of Radio’s First Programme and the editor of the Web Desk.

NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones

  • NoviSpy: spyware on activists' phones: The University of Belgrade Faculty of Law said that equipment believed to be for audio and video recording was found in its largest lecture hall, and police seized it for forensic examination. University of Belgrade rector Vladan Đokić is demanding that it be established who installed it and on whose orders.

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