Higher Court in Novi Sad

It ordered and repeatedly extended detention for Novi Sad activists from PSG and STAV, who are charged with preparing an attack on the constitutional order. One of the activists went on hunger strike, and students blocked the court entrance for days. In the canopy collapse case, it first declined to confirm the indictment and then dropped the proceedings against former minister Goran Vesić and five others, a decision the Court of Appeal reversed. It awarded the families of those killed damages from the railway company and the state.

Affairs

  • Car attacks on students and citizens at blockades: It announced that the justice minister had initiated the pardon proceedings ex officio on 25 September 2026
  • Novi Sad activists charged with overthrowing the constitutional order: According to the defence, it did not deliver the detention order to her even after more than ten requests, so she was unable to appeal
  • Arrest of dean Snežana Brkić in Novi Sad: On 13 June 2025 it placed the dean and the other suspects under house arrest and barred them from contact with witnesses
  • Collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad railway station: On 24 December 2025, the pre-trial panel dropped the proceedings against Vesić and five others and confirmed the indictment against seven
  • Attack on students outside the SNS offices in Novi Sad: It lifted detention for three of them and replaced it for the fourth with house arrest under electronic monitoring
  • Dismissal and arrest of Novica Antić of the Military Union: A judge refused detention; after an appeal a panel ordered it and extended it several times because of witnesses
  • Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation: On 2 November it released the names of 18 pardoned people and said the proceedings had been initiated by the justice minister on 25 September
  • Vuletić arrested over money for third and fourth children: The pre-trial judge of the Special Anti-Corruption Department ordered both suspects held in custody for up to 30 days

People

  • Siniša Nadrljanski: judge of the Higher Court in Novi Sad, presiding judge in the canopy case