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Offline TomSea

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The journalist got beat up, maybe badly BUT he didn't die, I don't think he was even seriously hurt but there were big protests. Now, they make an arrest.
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Serbia leader announces arrest of mayor over attack on journalist
Reuters Editorial

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic announced the arrest of the mayor of a Belgrade suburb on Friday in connection with an attack on a journalist that has become a cause for protesters during nearly two months of anti-government demonstrations.

Vucic, a former ultra-nationalist who has become an advocate of closer ties with the West, is facing weekly demonstrations from opposition groups that accuse him of increasingly authoritarian rule. More protests are planned for Saturday.

Opposition parties and their backers accuse Vucic and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of stifling media freedoms and carrying out attacks on political opponents and journalists.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-arrests-idUSKCN1PJ2FU

It also made me wonder if the protesters were mainly "Communist" types, since that is what Serbia/Yugoslavia apparently use to be, a Communist nation though that was some time ago now,  30 years ago, more or less.  Those protesters were certainly showing up in large numbers though.

Offline dfwgator

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Re: Serbia leader announces arrest of mayor over attack on journalist
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2019, 10:25:45 pm »
But....but.....but...Orange Man is the one who beats up journalists!